I'm afraid I have not been watching the threads. I am getting really homesick. I don't sing anymore. I don't play my guitar. I can't remember many of the songs I used to do. I get really grouchy around the students... oh, wait, I'd do that anyway because they are such.. uh, dunderheads.

Friday was Parent Teacher Conferences. I had forty some parents roll through my door. Most of the conferences were pretty good but it was exhausting. They don't understand why their little angel doesn't do well in my classes. I have made some pretty serious promises.

I will be instituting a seating plan for several of my classes.

I will require certain students to sit up front at the request of their parents.

I will email worksheets to parents so they can sit over their darling angels and force them to do their work.

I will learn that failing kids who do not deserve better grades means I have to pay the price in long discussions with parents who believe their snot nosed little brat is a perfect angel and that he may not be able to read but at least he can beat people up! What? What do you mean that isn't a Christian attitude? Just because he is supposed to be a good Catholic...

I think I'm getting bitter about parents who buckle under the pressure and spoil their kids.