Snowdrifts, snowed-in, wacky weather (you're hot and you're cold), dangerous skating ice, various attitudes and rebellions and mutinies, last minute plan-changes, restlessness and SPRING FEVER, and a whole lot more.
There's been chaos and sadness and excitement and fun, good days and bad days and lazy days and happy days; a mad tumultuous lovely routine mess of it all.
And yet, every day has been the same. The same annoying musical alarm tone at 8 o'clock every morning throughout. The same daily mad rush to leave the house within half an hour. The same sleepy minute-long trudge to school, rain or shine. The same routine of 9am buzzer, rollcall, devotional time, exercise, math, exercise, spelling, English, lunch, story time, exercise, literature, geography, dismissal. The same fight for order and continuity and peace and kindness in class and out. The same struggle to be everywhere at once and see everything that happens. The same constant pressure to be wise, to know the answers to every textbook and life and moral dilemma my students or I face. The conscious ambidexterity needed to daily relate to students, coteachers, school board, and parents each in context of their own status.
Nah. Teaching schools no big deal. I do it like a boss every day. Actually like a principle. (Hahhhhhhh. Lamest joke ever. Doesn't even make sense. Sometimes laughing at things that don't make sense helps to clear a teacher's brain.)
But, as I mentioned above, it does have its obstacles. And that is the reason there is SPRING BREAK. The school board reads the weariness on their teachers' faces and realizes that a week away from the class room would be a great break for everyone and (hopefully) reinstate Courage and Passion into the teacher and the class.
To you teachers with only a few days of spring break left; do things that rejuvenate you. If it's messaging another teacher to commiserate or sleeping til 11 that last blissful day of spring break or making an unnecessary day-trip just because you *can* leave in the middle of the day or spending a few extra minutes with your Bible/prayer time because there are no deadlines to meet. Whatever it is. Do it. And when you go back to school Monday, don't forget the things that make you a good teacher -your God, your dedication, your love, and whatever all else are your personal supports when things get a little crazy. Cause we're counting down now (How many weeks til yearend? As much as my students enjoy school, I'm still pretty sure they'll have that number ready for me Monday morning...) and I'm sure things will get crazy. But it's a good kind of madness, the wildness of a group of excited children, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I think I will.
This post seems a little scattered; i didn't even take the time to proofread it and I wrote it around my hectic spring break schedule of sleeping in and swimming and shopping.
ThankYou, school board for giving us teachers this week to regroup. I am grateful for the chance to eat, sleep and breath something other than school. And really I'm ready to be back in school Monday and watch students all day before I go catch the sunset.
TSW
the SunsetWatcher
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