New Week

Well I took my first day off from school this last monday. I woke up about 4 am with a really bad headache and it seems like it hasn't went away yet. My sub didn't leave me any info on my classes but I know two of my desks were torn up when I got back. So id imagaine she had a pretty rough time or just let them do whatever they wanted. Also, yesterday was my first parent teacher conference I had 16 parents out of about 90 kids show up. It was actually a little more than I expected would show up. I didn't have a lot of great reports to give either. My students just don't want to do their notebook. But hoping now that some of my parents see how easy it is they will step in and make sure it gets done.

New Week

Well its the beginning of a new week and im excited about it. The football team picked up a big win friday night and it puts us at 3-1 in conference play so we still control our own destiny for the most part. And in football thats really all you can ask for. The nine weeks ended friday and the new nine weeks starts wednesday so that means my first parent teacher conference is right around the corner. It make me kinda nervous because I do have a fair amount of students flunking my class but its mainly because they dont turn in assignments so they get zero's. I kept telling them they have something due and they don't turn it in. I don't know what else to do.

Senior Skip day

Doesn't everyone love senior skip day? Im kinda new to this since we didn't do this in high school but literally no seniors showed up yesterday. However, I have very few seniors in class so it didn't really effect me untill football practice when half of our senior football players didn't show up for practice. It really bothers me when my students don't put in a quarter of the effort that I do. In the classroom I make study guides and give a note outline and I find them on the floor or stuck in a book all the time and that tends to bother me a lot. It really bothers me when it is carried over to football or any other extra activity because they don't have to be there if they don't want to. In my History classes most of my students don't like History and don't care about it so I can understand to a certain extent when they leave stuff carlessly laying around. I just need to do a better job of getting them involved with what I am teacing. But with football there should be no me trying to get them involved or into it. We have a huge game this week and they think they can just take off a day its ridiculous. And the sad thing is if they treat the athletics like that then how do they treat their school work?