School is almost done!

OK, I will be SO glad that school will be out, but I hate the last bit here. You can't teach any more because grades are closed. Parents of kids who are still failing get all full of drama and bluster (like it is the teacher's fault at this late date?) The classroom is depressing without the stuff on the walls and there is just a lot of chaos which I don't handle well. On the upside, I had a very tough homeroom this year full of big, dorky kids. All year the joke has been "well, at least you will win tug-of-war." So today was field day and of course, we won tug-of-war. I told all my teammates that I want the quiet, sweet good class next year even if they are all short and scrawny. The year-long putting up with big trouble-making kids is not worth the little traveling tug-of-war trophy in my book.