This week was as crazy as the week previous. TAKS state testing was on Monday so we missed that entire day to learn. I had no major problem with that because we had already basically finished everything we really needed to know about the Vietnam War. Tuesday-Thursday was when everything started getting crazy, and that is because the schools bell system was off because others who failed the TAKS test in previous years were making them up on those days. With the bells off many students would be tardy to class, and sometimes it was because their previous teacher let them out late, but many times it was students taking advantage of the bells not ringing. On Thursday after some of the same students kept trying to use the excuse of their teacher letting them out late I just started counting them tardy and had them go get a pass. Only ONCE did one student get upset at me about it, and this was because he could not have any more tardies or he would get in trouble in some kind of way. Friday was a make-up day for students. My cooperating teacher and I wanted to get the students to get some work done in class, and take some home because grades are due on Monday, and we wanted to students to have some good grades. Many students took advantage of this make-up day, but then there were those students who did not want to try to make up their work, and those will be the students receiving 40’s, 50’s and 60’s for progress reporting. Also on Friday, to raise money for the Saint Jude’s foundation there was a dodge ball tournament , and teacher faced students. I joined the teacher’s team and it was fun actually not doing something that involves academics, but rather friendly sporting.
