Getting those days in !

Yesterday at school, the faculty put on the annual Faculty Talent (or lack of) Show. It's a great idea, and a fitting end to the calendar year before Christmas Vacation. Because of a lack of space in the school auditorium, there was a limit of 800 tickets sold. At $5 a piece, the tickets go towards scholarships for the senior class. Since our school has 2600 wonderful students, there were quite a few that either didn't want to go, or did not get a ticket before they were sold out. That left a lot of teachers with students in their classrooms from 7:30-12:30. We couldn't teach, we couldn't test, so we were told to watch G movies (we don't have finals until Feb.). Luckily, my class this period is small and are juniors, so we didn't have a problem. Because of mixing classes because of performances, I know that some teachers had upwards of 50 students in their room for this time period. This "do nothing day", coupled with the fact that I was expected to teach 6 weeks of material in a little less than 5 weeks made for some interesting testing. I know the state mandates how many days the students have to be in school, but really, why should I be forced to entertain them for 5 hours? If they want to watch movies, there is an AMC down the road, or they all have these movies at the house to watch anyway. Over the Hedge was actually pretty good. It is one of those movies where kids and adults can both enjoy on two different levels. Oh well, I don't have to be back until January 8th, so life is good. On to shopping!