Current mood:	aggravated
Current music:	Rascal Flatt's new CD
Entry tags:	work

The Youth of the Nation
So I have happy little sophmores for World History, and they are sophmores so they tend not to care about their grades because, "Hey, we've got 2 more years to do this over if we want to!" But I can't believe that I have 24 "F"s in my 6th period! How can 24 kids not do the work?

I told them a month ago that they had "f" and 2 kids did enough work to bring their grades up to a "D." I don't assign that much work! We spent 2 days mapping World War 2 together. They had 20 minutes in class to color in Europe (It's small!) and Japanese expansion in Asia. They only had to answer 3 Questions.

Do you know how many I got back? 10! That's right, 10 out of 36.

There is something mentally deficient in the way these kids process instructions. Do they think that an "F" is passing? They have 4 weeks left to get their grades up, and have any of them asked if they could come in and do make-up work? NO! And I can just hear the phone calls now. Why is my sweetheart failing? Well, he's been failing since Feburary and every time I send home A grade check it has said F, possibly the reason he/she is failing is cause "you" haven't paid attention, and by the way, no since school ended today and I have to have grades turned in tomorrow, he can't do anything to bring up his grade.

Sheesh.

These are the conversations that I'm going to be having over the next 4 weeks. Please, Lord! Save me!

I was thinking about a Vespa in order to keep costs down, but I think I'll move out instead!