I'm Sicka Being Nice to all Y'all

While Sonya was forced to give a public apology to me during lunch in front of the whole school [which she did quite sincerely], the rest of the school was all "Sonya that's WHACK, you don't disrespect Ms. _______, she's cool." That made me feel all "teaching is a great job."

Then after lunch Anna was convinced that she needed to fight a girl named Xayvia from another class. [I know, what the hell kind of name spelling is that?!] and I told her to take a seat and not leave the room and take a few deep breaths and calm down." But she was all riled up and went to her locker to get out a skull cap and tie it on her head and I am standing right next to her asking her to take it off and realizing that she must be tying it on her head to protect her hair during a fight. I'm waiting for her to get out the vaseline for her face and she starts cursing in this crazy high pitched voice:

"I'm sicka being nice to all y'all n*ggas and I'm not gonna play no more!" and she keeps repeating it in an increasingly high pitched voice, with some subtle variations like "I'm sicka being f*cking nice to this whole motherf*cking class, y'all n*ggas gotta give some respect" and I'm just sitting there going "Anna... Anna... Anna..." in a calm tone of voice like she is not freaking out and scaring the hell out of all of us.

Then our school aid takes her into the hall [upon my request] and the whole class wants to watch her through the tiny a$s window in the door and I threaten to cancel yet another field trip if they don't sit down and write their damn poetry. I win.

Tomorrow I am hosting 1/2 day of detention while my good kids and my co-teacher's good kids go see Akeelah and the Bee. I am quite jealous, having planned this trip and then having cancelled it for my kids and my co-teacher is still going. I wish I could just take a sick day and go to the movies by myself.

We counted today: 29 days of school remaining, 9 of which are either trips, 1/2 days, professional development days, or me taking a personal day to go upstate to my college reunion. Nice!