Sure went fast...and for a good reason.
I'm already saying that I will be staying home next summer, but that is what I say NOW...who knows? Cannot see myself really doing that. Just not in my nature.
We report to school tomorrow, officially. I've already been there, off and on, since returning from Belize. My classroom is almost set up. Got my one bulletin board up.
Who knows what the coming school year brings? There are already signs that our new deputy superintendent is going to interfere a great deal in our day to day teaching. Well....but then again, how much is a "great" deal? That's relative. She is insisting on the use of a "new" reading program that we must implement with a monthly theme. There are rumblings about having to spen d 15 minutes of our classtime on it each day. We already don't have enough time to cover the territory we are required to, by the state. This won't make things any simpler.
I am hoping for a good year. Something I have figured out about myself over the course of this summer is that I spend far too much time brooding over injuries that occured in my past. My thoughts turn to such things far too often. That tends to make me see the downside in things in the present and that helps no one.
Still, if things don't go well this school year, I am already contemplating retirement and the moving on to other things, possibly even in other states. My health is good right now, but there is no promise that this will continue for a lot longer. Who kinows? Tomorrow is promised to no one. I want to make the best use of my remaining years on this planet and I just won't spend any of that time doing something that causes me (or anyone else) grief.
But there I go again, looking at the downside. Gotta work on that. Onward....
