The last month of the school year is ...X. You can call it what you want. I have mixed feelings of course. Here are just a handful of events going on: the spring musical, honors night, county and state track meets, choir concerts, pizza parties, band concerts, cheerleading tryouts, dance team tryouts, pizza parties (oh, did I already mention that? Well, there are certainly more than one), ice-cream social, open house for middle schoolers, class and club picnics, field trips to amusement parks, day-camps, prom, senior all-night party, graduation. One would think that with graduation, events are over, but not necessarily if seniors graduate before the official last day of school. I hate to admit it, but at this point in the school year, VERY LITTLE learning is actually taking place. Besides the many events, teachers and students alike are burned-out. Students are working on "projects" whatever those may be at this point, something to keep them occupied and appeased. Sticking to a regular schedule is impossible with all of the assemblies, events--not to mention the number of students out each day for field trips and sporting events. Thus all of the empty desks.
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I have been thinking about this last month of school, becasue as a college student, we get out at then end of April, and so the thought of teaching school until the end of May (where I live) seems so terribly long. That last month, where summer really blooms, and having to keep dragging on...I'm not looking forward to that.
But I think its funny that I can ask any kid I meet, "how many more days of school?" and they can give me a perfectly accurate answer.
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