the end of the year

so the big news is that my school will be closing next year (i would say 95% sure)
my kids are upset. i'm sad. it's just crazy.
i don't know what/where i will be teaching next year and probs won't for awhile. right now my certification is 9-12 social studies, but i want to do what i can so i can still teach middle schoolers. call me crazy but i like the age!
if you are interested here is a link to the st louis newspaper about what's going on: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/article_a5d2d199-be6f-5b10-925e-66979ca93c4f.html

so today the applications went out for other magnet schools that the kids could attend. the two "gifted" schools (metro and mckinley) are both full. but there are still some good ones left. a lot of my kids think that they will be able to attend another district school (parkway for example--the district greg and cora went to school in) or webster groves which is down south of the city. i don't think that will happen because our district has to pay for the kids to go there and they have so little money they don't want to give it to the people LEAVING their district. The other districts also don't necessarily want the kids, what with possible behavior issues and then them not necessarily being up to the standard all their other kids are. i've heard that they are starting to only take kids if they live in the district or if they start in kindergarden and continue. oh well.

i ended up calling all of my kids parents today to let them know about the applications... some of my kids parents can talk!!! but one of the parents said that she saw a good change in attitude from her daughter... she said that her daughter always wanted to go to school, which was a change from last year. she said it was me, her teacher, that made her attitude change! i don't know if i can take that much credit, she does have a good social scene here, but i know that she does like me!

anways, those are my thougths right now!