In this post, I will allude to Kai Risdol
So, Peggy, you might ask, how was the week before Spring Break at school?
To that, I would reply: let's look at it scientifically. Let's 'do the numbers' from Thursday, shall we?
Number of disciplinary actions: 9
Percentage of total students involved in disciplinary actions: 20
Number of days of out of school suspension handed out: 10
Number of days of in-school suspension: 6
Number of students in OSS: 3
Number of students in ISS: 3
Number of students given assorted detentions and other punishments: 3
Number of parents called to school: 4
Number of people that Principal saw cry: 4
Number of crying people who were parents, not students: 3
Number of students I reported to the counselor as suicidal, according to hearsay from students in disciplinary hearings: 1
Number of times I had to explain that clinical depression is "an illness, where your brain doesn't make the right chemicals to let you be happy, even if everything is going for you in your life": 2
Number of times that the students brought up Kurt Cobain's suicide as illustrative of this explanation: 2
Number of students who were actually alive concurrently with Kurt Cobain at any point: 0 (Actually, most of them were between two and three years old when Cobain died. My bad. Still, though.)
Number of times I declined to explain what the word "libido" in "Smells Like Teen Spririt" means, instead informing the student that the dictionaries are self-serve: sadly, only 1
And, possibly as a result of the above:
Number of teachers too exhausted to do actual lesson plans, but rather showed movies or had "end-of-semester parties": ALL 5 (out of 8)
To that, I would reply: let's look at it scientifically. Let's 'do the numbers' from Thursday, shall we?
Number of disciplinary actions: 9
Percentage of total students involved in disciplinary actions: 20
Number of days of out of school suspension handed out: 10
Number of days of in-school suspension: 6
Number of students in OSS: 3
Number of students in ISS: 3
Number of students given assorted detentions and other punishments: 3
Number of parents called to school: 4
Number of people that Principal saw cry: 4
Number of crying people who were parents, not students: 3
Number of students I reported to the counselor as suicidal, according to hearsay from students in disciplinary hearings: 1
Number of times I had to explain that clinical depression is "an illness, where your brain doesn't make the right chemicals to let you be happy, even if everything is going for you in your life": 2
Number of times that the students brought up Kurt Cobain's suicide as illustrative of this explanation: 2
Number of students who were actually alive concurrently with Kurt Cobain at any point: 0 (Actually, most of them were between two and three years old when Cobain died. My bad. Still, though.)
Number of times I declined to explain what the word "libido" in "Smells Like Teen Spririt" means, instead informing the student that the dictionaries are self-serve: sadly, only 1
And, possibly as a result of the above:
Number of teachers too exhausted to do actual lesson plans, but rather showed movies or had "end-of-semester parties": ALL 5 (out of 8)