Laws of Gravity

Culinary arts. Friday. Sixth period.  Yes, that's cooking. Yes, home ec is still around, although they don't do sewing anymore. I th...

Wednesday. Seventh grade success, third period.  (Different campus than the one I did the week and a half of seventh grade success at, but t...

The Friday before spring break. English 9. Eighth period.  The assignment: come up with examples for various ideas expressed in Romeo & ...

Thursday. Ninth grade English, special ed. Eighth period. It's district writing assessment time (as I've mentioned in previous posts...

Tuesday. Photography.  Mr. S arrived shortly after I did. He explained that the art department was having their yearly planning session ( wh...

Wednesday. Eighth grade English, seventh period.  When I left the art class, I didn't say "goodbye" to them. I said, "see...

Friday. Eleventh grade English, eighth period.  The kiddos had a quiz on The Great Gatsby  chapters four through seven. As they walked in an...

Wednesday. Second period sophomore math (again).  Why is it always second period? Anyway... Mr. Y had an IEP meeting, so it was just me and ...

Sometimes teachers will leave their cell phone numbers for us subs just in case. I try not to use it as I don't want to bother them, but...

 Friday. Eighth grade English, fifth period. The kiddos had an assignment on culture. It was a project that they had had a couple weeks to w...

Wednesday, fifth period. French 1.  (I ended up covering a week of French classes. It was one of those assignments that I picked up at 11:30...

Thursday. The bell had just rung to let the kiddos out of school. One of the students had hung back to talk to me. He started off by referen...

It was Friday of the second week of school, and the kiddos were working on an assignment called Science About Me. It consisted of questions ...

A couple weeks ago, I was offered a long-term gig in a special ed social studies class. That job started last Friday. I'm vaguely famili...

It is spring break for me, so last week's stories will appear next week. For this week, I'm on my "summer schedule". Howev...

Monday. Fifth period accounting.  They were half doing the assignment, half talking about random stuff.  The phone rang. It was the attendan...

Digital art. Sixth period.  It had been a weird art day. The classes were mostly silent. (Art classes are generally very talkative.) So, six...

Friday. The continuation high school. Technically, the class was woodshop, but due to safety concerns, we were in the teacher's other cl...

Passing period. It's the time between classes, when the kiddos go from one room the next.  As per usual, I was standing at the door, gre...

Middle schoolers are way more fun virtually. Things that are annoying (or worse, disruptive) in person take on a certain whimsy online.  Fri...