The Subs

This week's been a long stretch of misery. First the horrible workshop for teachers where 2 women stood in front of me and told me that I need to test test test test test kids to get them up to speed. They also told me what graphs are and how you can use graphs to actually SEE progress or lack of progress. Half day out of classroom for that one. Then the root canal happened and I was out again. Today I was gone the whole day for a workshop on collaborative teaching. It wasn't too bad, but when one of my collaborators called over to wildschool to get an update on the day, she told me that my Kid-With-Many-Problems (KWMP) had beaten the crap out of my Kid-Who-Is-Quite -Odd-But- Extremely-Amusing (KWIQOBEQ). So that tainted the rest of the day. At the end of the day I went by school to look at KWIQOBEQ's bruised and battered face. It looked quite awful. I talked to a friend at school who told me my students paraded back and forth between the classroom and the office pretty much all day. Then tonight, come to find out, I have lost the battery recharger for my camera. I think I may have left it in Chicago. Flippin icing on the cake.