180 Days

HERE WE GO..................... Tomorrow will be the first day of school for District 8. Being on a Military Base, so many of our kids will be new. Then there are the 6th graders...actually they don't mature until January....that will be scared to death with a bigger school and moving to 6 different teachers, let alone finding the lunch room. 7th will think they are 'way cool', be loud and throw their weight around. 8th are just 'too cool' so they will just be cool, unless they have to be the one to announce to this world that they are cool. (They aren't if they have to announce it. It's fun to remind them of this fact.)

Hopefully, there will be no first or second day fights.....keeping the fingers crossed on that one. It depends if they settled stuff this summer or they decide to bring it to school for an audience. We are about 82% minority children so we have 'much culture' that goes on in the hallways. This is the 2nd year for our new building so there will be quite a bit of reminding: "Does this look like the ghetto??? This is not the barrio, folks. Not here at school...settle it at home with your parents watching." The guy just finished installing video camera's on second floor today. We hope that will take care of the incidents in the halls/bathrooms during classes. Cell phones will be a big issue, as always....'turn them off...into the book bag....no texting........pick it up from the Principal.'

This is the 36th year of education for me.....i will have the same butterflies that the kids will have, I usually do in the morning. So, now there are only 180 days of school left. LOL I won't keep track any more until May.

I am glad that you stopped by.....

Sharon