Loving Mikayla Grace

That's right, that's what one of my students said to me this week. And you can bet my response was, "Get out of my room right now. You do not talk to me like that. You can walk your butt up to the office right now!" Oh yeah! That's what I said. I have a few student who are very trying. Just last week I had a student walk away from me and out of the building when I was speaking to him (we were in the community, bowling.) And again, you can bet I didn't let him disrespect me like that. I followed his butt outside and let him have it! The sea of kids (maybe 20) who were waiting for the bus to come, spread. I think they were all shocked at my reaction. They of course didn't know what was going on, but new I was not happy. Work has been crazy. Right now I feel like my time and energy that I put into my classroom is unnoticed and unappreciated. The other day I said I was done. I'm done putting in extra energy and time, especially if people like my principal are going to complain about the length of my IEP meetings, but doesn't even notice all the extra time and effort I put into the meeting. BUT, where was I today when school was closed because of fog? You got it, in my classroom working. I know that some day one of my students will look back on their education and appreciate all that I've done for them. I know that God appreciates the time and effort I put into my classroom and students. I'm not a 7:25-3:15 teacher. It's more like 7:00 - 5, 6, 7, 8, and sometimes 9. I do the best that I can do to provide my students a good education and try to help them the best way I know how.