I Pledge Allegiance to...

... the..... ........flag.......

"Miss Glass... Where's the flag?"

That was day six.  The guns have fired, and we are off to a great start.  The better part of this question is how 76 people didn't notice that there was no American Flag in my classroom for a total of 5 days.  In a CLASSROOM.

These are the types of things that happen every.  Single.  Day.  In a first year teacher's classroom.  Things so simple as getting an American Flag that you never realized you might need to consider.  As I tell my seventeen-year-old-notice-every-single-thing-you-do-wrong students on a daily basis, ... They don't teach you that in Teacher School!

They also didn't teach me that the best form of classroom managment I've found so far has been to make students who spend their time talking when they shouldn't be stand in front of, and stare eye-level at, a Justin Bieber poster.  They didn't teach me how to react when a student eats a sticker they have been given as a reward.  They didn't teach me how to deal with a student who will not quit doing backflips in my class.  I knew teaching high school would be an adventure.  I signed up for this... I signed UP for this!

So this blog is where I will talk about the things they don't teach you in Teacher School.  This blog is where I will try to puzzle through the inner-workings of seventeen-year-old brains in order to determine why the only lesson learned from moonwalking into a bookshelf was "I don't have eyes in the back of my head," and why that lesson wasn't learned much earlier in life.  This is where I analyze my own areas that need growth, my daily decisions, and my personal struggles.

Becuase, as my students will tell you in a heartbeat, The Struggle is REAL.