The Last Week of School!!!
Comments (1) So it’s the last week of school and the iTunes randomizer has selected the appropriate Starting Over by the Raspberries, a late 60s ballad, which musically fits the bill for something as potentially melancholic as the end of school. It’s always with such mixed feelings that I approach the end of a 2-year loop.
On the one hand, I am excited for the summer to begin, and excited for my 8th grade students to begin the final stage of their teenage years; high school. On the other hand, it’s sad to have developed a trust, a respect, and even an admiration for many of my students over the past two years. Luckily, many of them will be attending Los Angeles high school (which is ironically even closer to my neighborhood than my present school Cochran). Many students have expressed interest in coming back and talking to my incoming group of 7th graders this coming fall, so I’m looking forward to that aspect of things. Nevertheless, this time of year is always bittersweet.
Anyway, as this Sunday has presented itself with some unforeseen busyness, (such as organizing an 8th grade talent show and preparing for a teaching candidate in my classroom tomorrow), I must cut my thoughts prematurely short and wait until later this week.
Signing off!!!!
Themocracy