I am so depressed....

...and it's got nothing to do with the Patriots losing. Notice I didn't say Giants winning. Isn't it interesting this game that all the talk will be about the Patriots losing, not the Giants winning.

School sucks. I have ten special ed kids in my art class, all of whom are wonderful except for one. People keep saying don't I have an aide? Uh, no - brought that up five weeks ago at the beginning of the new semester. This one kid has to go - he pokes others, he is obnoxious - and all I was told for accommodations is "treat him like any other kid." Well, any other kid would have been written up by now. The counselor tells one story - gosh, she can't understand why I have so many kids in that class - well, bozo, you did the scheduling.

Enrichment went well - time went quickly, and all the kids commented on it - for a change they weren't saying they were bored...working on solving equations, and the Connected Math program has a great activity to introduce it. So that was a good class.

Fourth period was its usual - five absent, no one really wants to learn anything. And then I went to our content meeting after school to listen to two other teachers explain these incredible activities they are doing. I feel so stupid and worthless. One thing for me about teaching, my self-esteem is really tied in to how I do in the classroom.

12 days till rodeo beak. I hate my job. Soul-sucking incompetence....