Playing catch up

Monday is Catch up Day (insert your favorite condiment joke here) and it was a productive day indeed. I wish I could have gotten more done but I subbed for one class (and seeing as I have said no to Super Christine several times this year, I couldn't refuse again)

May is a prime time of the year for skipping. So many students (and teachers) are so tired and have mentally disconnected from school that all they can handle right now are exams (which only start in a month for seniors). Teachers are taking whatever sick days they have left and putting them to good use (I hear a terrasse calling me!), while as students are just not showing up at all to their afternoon classes (most of the time).

Having been teaching for the past 7-8 years, I am not surprised at this. I think it's normal. Your brain can only handle so much stress and work. It will somehow witch to "off" at one point... Now before you start pointing out the fact that these kids should only worry about school and that amount of stress is nothing compared to the kind and quantity of stress adults go through, I will say this: I know. Yeah, most of these kids cop out of school because they don't feel like it. However, some kids these days have much tougher lives than when we were their age. So if they disconnect from school, I can understand. It's the ones who do fudge-all the entire year and then decide to skip the majority of their classes. Then, they whine that they are failing. May they go boil themselves an egg because I have no sympathy for those idiots.