So I think my kids are pretty much finished– even though I got one last thing to teach, they really aren’t doing anything in their literacy class and their behavior is nuts.

I’m definitely putting my foot down with detentions, however, and most get the idea that if you don’t want to work during school, you’ll be there afterwards.

With that said, something fun happened today. We had about 15-20 minutes free at the of class, and every once in a while I’ll just ask them RANDOM questions, mostly pertaining to history topics… such as “who said ‘one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’ “… Anyway, they love this stuff, but today was probably the first time I made a full fledged competition out of it for like 20 minutes. It really was fun, and it’s at that moment that I realized that despite all the immaturity issues of my kids, they are interested in learning and they value knowledge, which is a cool thing to have inherited with my group.

I think I trace a lot of it back to 2 years back with their two prior TFA teachers they had back then. So this point is nothing overly profound, but it’s just kinda a cool observation about how kids are still kids, and I’m kinda lucky in that I have a group that (moreso than a lot of other grades) knows how to work and values knowing things.