Today was Friday for my students. Tomorrow and Friday are the NEA conferences. They are being held down town St. Louis at the Millennium Hotel this year. We get the two days off so we can have time to go to the conferences. I'm going to meet a co-worker at the Metro Link station and we're going to ride the metro link downtown together, then walk to the hotel.
Michaela had her last cross country meet of the season today. She came in 33rd. She had trouble running because of her cough. I think if she decides she wants to do this again next year, we'll see about taking her to the park and letting her train more.
Tonight was girl scouts. The meeting started out ok, but then at the end, the same thing as always happened. We have asked the girls repeatedly to not run around in the gym. Just because our meetings are held in the gym does not mean it's free for all time. I'm not sure how much help they gave in cleaning up before they started running around. It makes it hard for them to hear anything we have to say to them. It's also just not the right time for that kind of behavior. And, someone got hurt this time. It was an accident but that is not the point.
I am just so tired of having them ignore our instructions and directions. It is so disrespectful. We have explained it all to them and asked them more times than I can count, but they just ignore it. We can get them calmed down but if we turn to talk to a parent picking up or clean up something or even just pack up our things, they start in again. It's exhausting and makes me not want to be around them. I don't like feeling that way. Something is going to have to give. We can not keep having this stuff happen at our meetings.
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