Changing seasons

Out with the old and in with the new... basketball is the new. From now until the 1st week in February, I will eat, sleep and breathe basketball. I'm sorry, not basketball... hoards of 7th grade and 8th grade girls fouling each other up and down the court in a game that sorta resembles basketball.

Ok, we aren't that bad... are we? We have 7 practices until our first game. 7 practices until I have to sit on a bench and tell girls what to do. I'm so nervous for my team. I feel like there is not enough time for me to teach them what they need to know and definitely not enough time for me to learn what I need to know.

One thing that frustrates me about this is that my science class will fall down the drain. I have no time for morning or afternoon tutoring anymore. I am at school from at least 7 til 5 each day ON DUTY. That doesn't mean I am just hanging out and fixing stuff in my room. I can only be in my room to help kids on work during lunch... my supposedly "free time."

Today, I was prepared. I started a week ago... getting everything together and setting up for this event to happen. Yes, my mom would be proud... but then today came and its just like when the first day or school passed us by. There is always a tomorrow. And 91 pairs of eyes will be joining me in the computer lab for tomorrow's research session and I have to be on my toes.

This is not me trying to complain... this is my form of a pep talk. Get ready! Keep moving!.. and all those sorts of things. And this is when we have to make time up. Our TEKS benchmarks were deemed unreflective of our progress because no class had gotten to physics... but the numbers still scare me and right now it says only 16% of my kids are passing... AHHHHH!

Tomorrow is 1/2 of TAKS day #1. I'm looking forward to it... if my basketball team doesn't kill me first! - coach b!