The End Is Near

I am comming down to the last four weeks of my career here at Taylor Schools. Part of me is excited about leaping out into a new career and working environment, but at the same time I am still very concerned about where I am going to work since I do not have any clear direction. As far as the end of the school year being over I think I am as anxious and excited as my students who have gone into coast or zombie mode since Spring break ended four weeks ago. I am so dissapointed in them right now and I have been on them hard and heavy to get their work done. Nothing seems to help. I have stood kids in the hall for sleeping and sat them in the hall and in the corner for not doing anything, but nothing seems to be working. Heck, when I was a kid an F meant something. I have 31 F's in my class and it doesn't even seem to phase them. I hate the fact that these kids know they are going to pass on to the next grade whether I say they shouldn't or not. Most of these students could care less if they are held back too because they still have friends in the grade below them, or they are so stoned off their butts that they don't care. Yeah, I have a bunch of 7th grade pot heads. I tell them all the time too what they are doing to thier lives, but that seems too far down the road to matter now.