bummed

Today was the last day with students. On the last day of school, the past few years we have had a field day in which the 6th graders get to participate in various field activities. I have always participated and have found it to be a lot of fun. It gives my students the chance to see me in a whole new light because I have no problem making a fool of myself when the right opportunity presents itself.

Yesterday, I had a meeting to go to which prevented me from going to our 6th grade meeting set-up to go over the last minute details of field day. The original plan was that two teachers would keep the students who had not earned the privilege of attending field day. I agreed to be one of the teachers to keep students. The majority of students I would keep were from my first period class - seriously 15 of the 22 students could not go. It was also agreed that if these students could do what they needed to do today, then they would have about an hour to be on the field thus giving me the opportunity to be foolish.

Well, silly me, I should have known that since I wasn't at yesterday's 6th grade meeting that I would have something very undesirable foisted upon me. The other teacher was no longer going to take her half, instead I was going to get ALL of the students. So my original 15? It doubled in size.

Needless to say that my colleagues got to see a whole new side of Ms_Teacher. It wasn't pretty. After my severe gnashing of teeth reasonable conversation with another co-worker, the 30 was whittled back down. However, I ended up with a majority of students who were not my students. Since this change of plans, I was also prevented from enjoying any field time. This also prevented me from seeing MY students and being able to say good-bye.

That's the bummer in all of this.