Laws of Gravity

Friday. I was back in the art class one last time. When Ms. D was hired, she already had plans for certain days. They asked me to sub those ...

Friday. Seventh grade science. Fourth period. It had already been a day. It was pouring down rain, which meant the kiddos were already cold ...

Wednesday. The lesson was "Using Active Listening". Of which they were not. The day was chaotic. I had students throwing things at...

It had been a long week. And Friday came along to make the week even longer...  We had two students with diarrhea (which is worse when the s...

When my gig at the adult transition center suddenly ended, I called in for a subbing gig for the next week. Alas, all that was available was...

Seventh grade math. The lesson plan warned that the classes had been difficult (this was accompanied by an apology), but I was to have a ...

I may not be very coherent for the next week or so. But before I whine, let me show you the pretty pictures. The gray behemoth made it to...

Seventh grade science. It's nearing the end of the year, so they were working on a major project--The Body Book. (It's a review...

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

Eighth grade math. I covered the class for two days. On day one, they were finishing up a lab. They had measured their heights and thei...

Math support. It's an extra math class for students who need extra help in math. Because they need extra help in math, these classes ...

Freshman English. It had been a very long day, but it was only 4th period. (The students do not like their teacher, and so they've go...

It was Friday. Summer school. Modern world history. They were to finish all chapter five work. According to them, they were all done. So,...

You've heard about the clowns , right? The idiots who are dressing up as clowns to terrorize people. Because some people think this s...

For today's #ThrowbackThursday, a post from February 28, 2008 . Another day with the evil 8th graders. Just goes to show, the more th...

Some days I should really just turn off my phone. Last Friday. The day before Halloween. Many of the kiddos were in costume. It was a...

7th grade special ed English. They had a really easy assignment. Or, at least I thought it was easy. It was an assignment on capitaliza...

It was a bad, bad day. Algebra readiness. These classes were filled with freshmen who were not ready for algebra. And many were not fans ...

It was day 2 of the terrible, awful, no good 7th grade math class. Periods 1/2 (I had the same group for two periods) was actually kind o...

You know it's going to be a bad day when you get to class and there are no lesson plans. Then the counselor walks in, explains the em...