skool's out!

skool's out for the summer. this is such a very good thing. i had a great sense of relief as i walked out the doors having turned everything in: keys etc! this feeling has been cosmically messed with by 2 things:

1. i'm really annoyed that a good portion of my students cheated on the final. i suspected one student, but hashed it out with him and erred on his side. it was obvious when i saw the test scores though, that dude passed it along. he didn't wind up graduating though, and i'm kind of glad. i know people have cheated in life, but come on man.

2. i am 95% confident that my digital camera was stolen from my desk. i know that it makes me sound like a pretty shallow person to be upset about this, but it's just rediculous. i must have forgotten it over the weekend, which would either put it on a student who came in when i was out of the room, or maintence personell. either way, it's just kind of like, "come on dude. stealing from a teacher? you know we don't get paid nothing, and we're on the same team here." apparently we're not.

aside from the painful irony of the camera getting zoinked the last week before school was out, and the fact that it was a loving gift from ma and pa carter for baby s' college graduation, i guess it will be fun to get a new camera after i scrimp in some areas to cough up the dough. i am extremely optimistic about the summer, and already cleaned up a bunch of my teacher stuff to double check that my camera wasn't just lost in a messy room.

favorite quote from a survey i gave my kids:

One peice of advice I would like to share with Ms. Carter is:
"cuss these bad students out." yeah dude, yeah!