Almost Done - A Reflection on the Past School Year

Well, It's almost June in my first year at my (no longer) new school. According to my school clock, I have about 31 days and 14 hours until the school year is done.

It's been an interesting ride.

I first got the job a little more than a year ago with the admonition to follow the curriculum - duh! This was followed by a warning that "teaching is serious work"

Nice start. To be honest, I was not sure that I wanted to teach here at all. (With that rousing start - who could blame me). But I perservered. Through complaining students and vadalism. Disrepect and failure. Good times and bad. Looking back on it, I'm sure that there were more good times than bad (or else, I really am some sort of masochist).

However, the constant grind followed with my grumpiness about "how it outta be run", added to the near constant complaining and lack of effort and disrespect mixed with teaching students for half a day that willingly light each other on fire all led to apathy about the work.

My fault really, I should have seen the signs earlier and taken steps.

Then came the wake-up call in the form of an evaluation. Even though I knew that it was well-meant, it did NOT come across that way.

So now I rebuild with a month left.

I hope next year is better.


I will make it so.