Gold Day. Formerly A Day. Day 23.

First period AP Government and Politics started as well as can be expected for an early class. We all gathered in our morning "full attendance circle" and sang songs while we watched the sun come up. Some of the more sensitive children wept because there was only one sunrise a day to spend together. I reserve this ritual for period one only.

Of course none of them noticed that I was wearing the same outfit as my dog. See photo 1 and the artist's rendition below.

Photo 1 Sybil (best friend and life partner) above:

Artist's rendition of me and two of my students with a cow below:

The problem with period one...is that I gave a mini-quiz. It doesn't actually count as a quiz, but in Pinnacle it says "quiz" and notably most of fourth hour failed to show up. How surprising... I sat as alone then as I was at my ten year old birthday party. My mom told me it was because of the blizzard. But I knew it wasn't the cold outside, it was the frost in their tiny hearts that kept "my friends" away.

Period two did show up to class but only because they knew they would be dismissing themselves to a senior assembly. As soon as the announcement was made, kids started running for the door like it was the last lifeboat on the Titanic. Two of the smaller kids were smashed flat and another child without missing a single step picked them both up and rolled them like towels and carried them away. I was left in my empty classroom with the smell of burning rubber and the scuff marks left behind by 36 pairs of Crocs. (Yes everyone in in 2nd period wears Crocs. They are terribly challenged when it comes to fashion and I'm afraid they will never grow out of their teenage awkwardness. Personally I was never awkward so I don't know what that must be like for them. It must be awful.)

At the assembly they were all informed of their new status as felons if they were tardy or absent in excess, and then a cap and gown company came in for a sales pitch, probably because the owner wanted a third Lamborghini.

U.S. History Honors took a literacy test and proved what I had been thinking all along. I need not say more...