Unusual last week events...

Its finally the last week of school, and I cannot wait for it to be over (then again, the students can't either!). I'm ready for a break from papers, tests, lectures, dealing with discipline issues, etc. This week is probably one of the most hectic of the whole year. We have seniors leaving a couple of days early, students who decide to leave with three days left and won't make up their last tests, and those who are in in-school suspension...and that's just the students. We have extra duties during this week, mounds of paperwork, final grading to do, textbook turn in, room tear down, and the list goes on! To add to this, we had a bomb threat at school on Monday. We had to evacuate the school at 2:30 and we were unable to re-enter the school until 5 p.m. It turns out that a local bank was being robbed and the threat was called in to divert the authorities. I was very impressed with how well the students (over all) handled the situation, which was my biggest concern during the ordeal. So hopefully the last couple of days will go smoothly, and we won't have any more threats called in this week.