Sometimes, I Just Don't Care About My Grades...

Monday.

My last real Monday as a student teacher at Cache La Poudre Junior High School. I will be here next week, but it will be finals. We will have finals next Monday and Tuesday and then I will be done.

Boy, that went fast!

It seems like just yesterday, I was sitting down in the media center on the first teacher orientation day hearing about Mr. Byrd's death. That was four months ago!

Anyway, on Mondays, we have each class. In some classes, we are typing, in some classes, we are trying to get caught up on stuff that should have been done long ago.

I continue to be surprised by the fact that there are lots and lots of students that don't really seem to care. They don't care if their assignments are turned in on time, they don't care if they have a decent grade, they don't care if they are learning at all. This is rather sad, in my opinion. There are a bunch of kids that don't have projects linked or completed or turned in and I will say to them: "Hey, get your project linked, so that I can grade it!" They rarely do. My guess is that next Monday, during finals week, I will probably have a ton of kids grabbing me in the lunch room, in the hall, etc., all telling me to recheck their stuff. Argh.