Remember when I said Worst Day Ever, now it really was
Things went fine today until homeroom. I was chatting with my two good students while others were in the corner talking about smoking weed and stupid stuff like and listening to music on the computer through headphones. Well, someone asked for the speakers to the computer and I said no. So what did they do, but go steal them from a drawer in my desk. Now, a girl was a the computer who was in a fight yesterday and as I went to go and unplug them, she violently grabbed my arm. I went then to turn the computer off and again and she violently grabbed my arm. She was also being egged on by my gang member whom I now hate more than life itself. Well, I wasn't having it so I went and got security. She was taken out and I wrote her up. Turns out she was supposed to be suspended, of course. Because I put "laid hands on the teacher" in my write up. They came and got me. When I explained what happened I got upset and had to go to the Social Workers office so that they woulnd't see me. So, they called the police on her. I sat in the office crying like I tend to do and then the police came to take my statement. I pulled myself together for that but as soon as I got back to the office I broke down. Three times I pulled myself together just to have someone come in or me try to leave and see someone I know saying "What happened?" So three times I had to go back to the office and cry a little. By then I called it a day and they found a sub to cover my classes for me so that I could go home. I certainly did feel very valued as a teacher as they catered to me I reassured them I'd be back tomorrow. What did I come home to but a letter from my back stating that my check had, indeed, bounced like the others so me returning that check to them was pointless.
I called the school and told the VP about it and she called our HR person and then called me back saying that they'd have a cashier's check for me tomorrow. That and, today I was allowed to cash my current check that was to be paid on friday from school (I was told to wait until today for it to be good by the school.) When I went to the bank today, I asked if they could check to make sure that the check wouldn't bounce but my bank couldn't get through to that bank. Some of the teachers say they are not coming in tomorrow if their checks aren't good today. But there's no reason to know that until, well for me, two weeks from now. Damn, if I could take the ten kids in that place that I care about and just go, I would.
But instead, I'll just go back...to Freedom Land.
I called the school and told the VP about it and she called our HR person and then called me back saying that they'd have a cashier's check for me tomorrow. That and, today I was allowed to cash my current check that was to be paid on friday from school (I was told to wait until today for it to be good by the school.) When I went to the bank today, I asked if they could check to make sure that the check wouldn't bounce but my bank couldn't get through to that bank. Some of the teachers say they are not coming in tomorrow if their checks aren't good today. But there's no reason to know that until, well for me, two weeks from now. Damn, if I could take the ten kids in that place that I care about and just go, I would.
But instead, I'll just go back...to Freedom Land.