Valentine's Day

I've decided to update my blog after a "short" hiatus.

To mark an occasion that I absolutely abhor: Valentine's Day.

If there is but one holiday that the kids take the most seriously, it is this accursed "holiday" (otherwise known as a fabricated excuse for card companies to sell to the duped masses). You'd think it'd be Christmas or Halloween, but it's not.

I'm preparing myself psychologically for a day full of couples in the hallway making out, candy wrappers being left on my floor, pathetic roses being swapped, and poor kids crying because they didn't get a valentine (sucks to be them). And worse of all, learning has been sacrificed for hormones.

I shudder to remember one moment last year, when one of my worst students (a pot smoker with an attitude problem [she's reformed this year, but that's a different story]) had her boyfriend BARGE into my classroom while I was teaching and hand her a bouquet of roses. The boyfriend didn't even go to school here. And the class spent 10 minutes ooh-awwing her good fortune, completely derailing any attempt at teaching.

I am going to count how many times I want to barf today.