6 kids in my room today at the start of class. Another 10 or so floated in at irregular intervals, the rest were just complete no shows. At least half the late kids had some kind of "what did I miss" "can we go over the start of the lesson again?" Comment

I'm at a weird point of learning students names. When they are in my room and in front of me, I got it. But if someone sends me a name in an email and asks me how they are doing there's about a 50/50 chance I can tell you anything about their grades or personality

Whenever I make a parent contact and post it in the log I can see that I'm one of the only ones. There's not a single teacher who has done more parent contacts for failing grades than I have, which are required. So of course I am the one with an angry parent over lack of contact

The average NFL game has about 12 penalties in it. Both teams have agreed that they get 11 players on the field and if they have more, it's a 5 yard penalty. If a team insists on playing with 12, and refuses all penalties, you don't have a game. Fundamental rules must be accepted

Sunday scariest are a lot worse when it's my difficult class on a Monday

Due date for an assignment was 2 weeks ago. My reporting deadline is this week, so the schoolwide policy was all work needs to be in by Friday. Kid turns something in at the very last minute, but its the notes that go along with the assignment and not the assignment itself

If you were given a job offer that pays about the same as your current job but is outside of the field would you quit teaching?

Our staff is really bad at attendance lately. I dont know if it's because there are so many things that are top priority that nothing is top priority anymore, we are just hiring warm bodies, or if people are just over it. Policy is you aren't absent unless marked absent 4 times

Test scores were up for me, but in some of my classes they just aren't doing enough of the regular work to have an overall passing grade. Some teachers will have a "pass the test, pass the class" policy to get a few more kids though, but I dont really like that