I Got Them Teaching Blues...

I'm sure every profession is replete with sad or stressful moments, but it sometimes feels like for teachers that they lurk around every corner. Because of what we do, I guess it is easier to take things personally or to view it as a failure. I don't know but I got those old timey teaching blues.

Lost a student today, she's gone away and it's hard to say if she was ever really with us. Nevertheless, I wish her well. Lost another student, I didn't really know him but I worry for him.

I looked at my grading lists today. There always comes a point for English teachers when they look at their grading and realize that they are at the bottom of the hill. Each assignment isn't so much but there are just so many of them. Nothing to do but slog, slog, slog till I get to the top...or at least hit the halfway point.

The whole student body is vibrating. It feels like the air before a storm; all buzzy and full of electric charge. I worry that something is going to happen. Then I feel like a superstitious fool.

I got them teaching blues.