Today is Friday, fianlly! yay! I just wanted it to be the weekend so I could sleep in and wrap up my work on my PACT. I am almost done and then I just need to carefully go through it for necessary edits. I also need to do an article review for my science teaching methods action research project because the presentation of our findings thus far is on Weds while I'm in Hawai'i. I also need to apply to more jobs as a few have deadlines in April and that is approaching on Monday.
In Bio, I was teaching a lesson about an introduction to Mendelian genetics and a student (so happens to be a member of my peanut gallery) raised his hand. When I called on him, he asked me if there is any way I can teach Chemistry next year. I told him that there are no jobs for me at all at Eureka High. This caused an outcry from the whole class! I said, I'm going to have to move. "What, where, we're all moving there!" Not even joking, those are exactly the words another student piped up with. At this point, Tera joined in and told that the students that is why I have been going to job fairs and that I'm going to be going wherever I get a job. So, then the student who first asked the question very seriously asked, "Can we get a class picture on the last day of school?" I assured him, that of course, yes we could get a class picture. I also told them that I would keep a blog of my first year of teaching and they could follow along with me and my first class. Then another member of the peanut gallery said, "No, we're your first class!" To that I said, true, and I already have a blog about you guys. Then they all wanted to know if they were in it. Then I told them that I would put up our class picture in my new classroom and then I thought about privacy rights and I said that maybe I couldn't put it up in my classroom. They were ready and willing to sign a petition (everything is solved to them with a petition) so they could be on my wall. But then Tera did say that it's probably okay if it's not on the internet so everyone calmed down and we went back to the lecture.
I'm going to miss those little boogers when I leave.
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