Laws of Gravity

Last Friday was my last day in the special ed math/history class. It was also assembly day. Ugh.  Third period. This is the same group I wro...

The first day of school. And I began a long-term in a seventh grade science class.  In our district, seventh grade is the beginning of middl...

Thursday, third period. Technically, the class was world geography, but the subject makes no difference. It was Great California ShakeOut D...

Some days... This past week was Homecoming Week. That meant the game was Friday, the dance was Saturday, and there would be an assembly. Ugh...

Last Friday was kind of crazy. It was Homecoming Week. (I'm not sure when this happened, but now it's called HoCo, and there were al...

The assembly was called "No Girl Left Behind", and it was scheduled for third and fourth periods. I took roll, and the girls al...

Eighth grade English. It was the class that stole my clock . On a Friday. With an assembly scheduled . Basically, I was doomed from the...

I saw the small bag with the ribbons in them when I arrived in class. The Post-It said I was to pass them out to first period and why. Bu...

Oh, how I hate assemblies . I thought I might get out of this one, but alas, I had to go. It wasn't as bad as some of them--they had a ...

The marquee in front of the school read, "Homecoming Game Oct. 7". I knew that that meant that they were due an assembly and it wo...

I celebrated too soon. Sure, I missed the assembly at one school yesterday, but the school I was at today had their assembly today. Sigh. ...

"Can you sign permission slips?" Normally, the answer is no, but today they were having a special assembly second period only fo...

I kind of knew it was coming.  When I got the call this morning, I had a feeling that was subbing for a roving teacher.  Turned out I was ri...

I kinda knew it was coming.  Remember how I mentioned yesterday that it was homecoming week?  That meant that we were due to have an assemb...

NOOOOO!!!!!!! I hate assemblies. If I know that one is coming, I will do what I can to avoid that school on that day. But many times I get...