just another manic monday, woah-oh-oh

Today at school was supposed to be painful for everyone involved. It wasn�t in the end, it was only a very long Monday. It was long because on a normal Monday the kids have gym and art, today they didn�t. The art teacher was sick and the gym teacher was snowed in somewhere.

We can�t afford substitutes so there were no breaks today but that�s okay. Usually having a substitute teacher is such a hassle that it isn�t worth it. I�d prefer to have my students all day over having someone who isn�t a teacher not control them for a hour or more and then deal with their misbehavior for the rest of the day.

Have you seen Space Camp? It�s an exceptionally awful movie from the eighties where children are accidentally shot into outer space but survive and return to Earth alive. Well, they have this machine that the kids learn how to be astronauts in that spins them around and they have to right themselves in it or they cannot land the Space Shuttle.

Well, that is what happens when you have children after a substitute teacher has had them. They are out of control and you have to return the classroom to a semblance of order or you�re in tiny pieces from Texas to California before you can say, �Jews in Space.�

As a general rule I�d rather be teaching my students than leaving them to someone else. At least when I�m teaching my children it�s my fault when things go wrong � especially when they go terribly wrong.

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