Special Day Class

Tonight's class got canceled! I celebrated with some Red Box. Tonight I rented Capitalism; A Love Story by Michael Moore. An interesting film, but some of the issues were too complicated for me. I fell asleep at the 1 hour mark for a couple hours. Anyways, it's very anti-banks like BoA and GS. Makes sense. Anyways, give it a try if you got 2 hours of educating yourself on your hand.

Today, I substituted for a special day class, a place for kids with IEP, trouble makers, low performers, and some special education. As I walked towards the door, the teacher's aide started letting the students in the door one by one. Even so, utter chaos. It was the most insane first 10 minutes of any class ever! I'm normally used to my students entering quietly and working on a warmup for the first 5 minutes. I could practically sleep (which I have) or not be in the room for the first 5 minutes and everything will still be under control. But not this case. The kids were off the walls, pushing each other, running around, and yelling. My first thoughts, "never again." After everything finally settled down, I had to enter the "don't mess with Trang" mode. With middle school, fear and intimidation work to your advantage. To sum it up, a loooong 52 minutes...but a new found respect for special edu/special day class teachers! I thought I had it tough, but man, it's crazy in there!

2 more weeks of teaching! I really need to loosen up...like seriously, I'm still so strict to my babies. I guess I'm just scared to see their ugly sides and taint my image of them...We can be cool when school is done. Furlough days in effect, minimum day Wed and Fri. I still have 12 sick days left so I could practically take the remainder of the year off. I actually turned in my forms to request sickness days for the next 3 days, but I'll still be teaching my class. A sub will come in and not have to teach, which equal free money while I get paid through my illness days. Genius idea...what a lucky sub. Better hook it up...