The End.

In approximately 1 hour and 46 minutes [ok more like exactly 1 hour and 46 minutes] I will be done with my career as a public school teacher. I've met with my principal, gotten my [very complimentary] Year End Review and my paystubs for the summer and submitted my last per-session timesheet, washed the chalkboard, packed up all the classroom books, pushed and stacked all the furniture up by the window, given away all of my teaching supplies, distributed my teacher-games to deserving kiddies, tossed half empty bottles of hand sanitizer in the trash, eaten 2 bagels for an end of year breakfast and lunch, discarded my inverted crappy umbrella which died this morning on my very last long rainy commute, and given about 48 hugs to sweaty sixth graders wishing them well.

I'm not sure that there will be much reason for me to post here anymore--I have signed a confidentiality agreement for my summer job teaching new teachers at a college and I'm not sure how to truly disguise it well enough to not "get caught" or get in some kind of privacy-related-trouble. But I'm sure at some point, perhaps after visiting my kiddies at their Summer Program or visiting my old third graders at their new charter school, I'll do a little recap. Until then, enjoy your summers, teacher folks... I know I will.