welcome back to school

 It's weird coming back to teach instead of just going and teaching for the first time. First of all, I know what to expect now, like how the seventh graders are sweet and sit still now but by October will be little helldemons. It's also that now, apparently, the principal thinks I did a good enough job that he gave me a Read180 class and populated it with three kids that probably don't need to be in there (one who DEFINITLEY SHOULD NOT BE IN THERE) and one kid who does need to be in there instead of just like, putting them in the Learning Center. 

My seniors graduate this year. Hopefully. One out of seven didn't come back, and I know three will graduate, one will if she decides she will, one's good enough at pulling shit together last minute he'll probably make it, and one that I'm... a little worried about, but can do it. Hopefully we don't have any more dropouts. 

One thing that's new this year is that Steven is student-teaching across the hall in the Math room, and is taking over for the second semester. So we'll be making as a couple like, 60k this year, so that's nice. Lion's share to the one who has a job all year rather than just half the year, thank you very much, but for all people complain about teacher salaries, it's decent if you don't like, have kids or medical conditions. But yeah. School started. My classroom is on the top floor and it is Too Fucking Warm.