An adventurous day. Amazingly enough, the contract has nothing to do with the fight. We are up for a new contract and the important things - school calendar and salary - have been agreed upon. Union meeting on Thursday which I will not be attending. All in all it looks pretty good. I'm disappointed in the school calendar as they insist upon an entire week for February break, did not lengthen our school days, and we still get out a week later than any other district around us. Frustrating.
The kids have lost their minds. There was a big deal about today being 6-6-06, which I did my best to squelch by pointing out that the calendar is a man-made invention and therefore, I didn't think supernatural evil that is loose in the world would really pay attention to that. Anyway, two boys in 8th grade decided they were going to start a food fight today. The one began by throwing - get this - an APPLE at the other kid. Knocked him in the head. Apparently this wasn't what the 2nd kid expected to happen and instead of continuing the food fight decided to just fight. Punched the first kid, where they both began to brawl in the lunchroom. It gets worse, though - our assistant principal stepped in to break it up and got punched in the face by the 2nd kid. He wears glasses, which broke and cut him on the bridge of his nose; hence he began bleeding. Here's the worst part - a large group of kids began to CHEER when our AP got hit.
Yes. Lost their minds. My 4th hour, who reported this to me (quite accurately, too - I was impressed!), was in a hushed attitude. After telling me about the fight, they appeared to be kind of in shock over our AP. And over the behavior of the kids who cheered. I don't think it sunk in what had actually happened until they were in a different location and began to process it. Our principal sent out a scathing e-bulletin (our school is so technologically cool!) to parents asking them to address this total lack of respect for authority figures. And we still have 7 school days to go....
The kids have lost their minds. There was a big deal about today being 6-6-06, which I did my best to squelch by pointing out that the calendar is a man-made invention and therefore, I didn't think supernatural evil that is loose in the world would really pay attention to that. Anyway, two boys in 8th grade decided they were going to start a food fight today. The one began by throwing - get this - an APPLE at the other kid. Knocked him in the head. Apparently this wasn't what the 2nd kid expected to happen and instead of continuing the food fight decided to just fight. Punched the first kid, where they both began to brawl in the lunchroom. It gets worse, though - our assistant principal stepped in to break it up and got punched in the face by the 2nd kid. He wears glasses, which broke and cut him on the bridge of his nose; hence he began bleeding. Here's the worst part - a large group of kids began to CHEER when our AP got hit.
Yes. Lost their minds. My 4th hour, who reported this to me (quite accurately, too - I was impressed!), was in a hushed attitude. After telling me about the fight, they appeared to be kind of in shock over our AP. And over the behavior of the kids who cheered. I don't think it sunk in what had actually happened until they were in a different location and began to process it. Our principal sent out a scathing e-bulletin (our school is so technologically cool!) to parents asking them to address this total lack of respect for authority figures. And we still have 7 school days to go....
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