End, of Course

The EOCs have begun. Halfway through 'em now. My Algebra 2 kids tested today. We'll see how they did in a little bit now. The week came and went by. I at least got to see my seventh period (my sole Algebra 2 class) all three pre-testing day (those last days in April). Wednesday was the weird pull-out schedule. We were only in first and seventh periods. First period is a Bridge Math class and I wasn't fixin' to spend all those three hours teaching to those freshmen (especially as I don't get that with my other Bridge class) so it was a movie day. They wanted to watch Insidious 2. Then a little bit of The Avengers with the remaining time (that was reluctant 'cuz nothing they suggested was on Netflix or had an appropriate rating). Anything else about the week? I did catch up on sleep some days. Yesterday I was a hall monitor. I was outside a few classrooms. Some of that time I at least got to get some work done. One room, the teacher was giving his kids breakfast before the test and they didn't even come over til after the test had started. The test administrator was in a bit of a panic 'cuz he had like three kids in the class. I went to go see if I could get them, but ran into the mob of kids outside between the buildings. Oh yeah, there was a pre-test/pullouts faculty meeting on Tuesday so I was excited there wasn't one Wednesday. Well, senior homeroom teachers (that's me) had to hand out stuff and sit around in the auditorium for a while after school so it kinda negated my free-afternoon joy. Had tutoring yesterday. Again, today was the test day for my students. I didn't have any testing job so I was just in the auditorium. That was fine. I got to wrap up my senior grades. I had my "professionalism" evaluation (I guess the final conference). I didn't even do my professionalism piece. 5% and a lot of headache other teachers were going through and I'm not teaching anymore so I navigated away from that stress. I just gave myself all 1s and of course I got a 1 on that. And along with the 1 from my other 5% (the terrible terrible evaluation my students gave me) I was really surprised when I ended up with over a 3 for my final score. Just barely. Of course that can still change when they actually get my students' test scores back. But it was quick and pleasant anyway. Talking to all my kids after the test they were mostly telling me it was easy. Maybe that's a good sign. Definitely could be a bad sign, but we'll see. Told Ms. Bush about my not coming back and she seemed upset. She was pretty sweet about it. I float in her classroom first period. She was telling me what a good teacher I am and I felt touched. Came home to my lovely wife and we watched the Kathleen Hannah documentary during our tea time. Anyway, it's time for this weekend to get on!