My final thought before hitting the hay:
So I finally got the list of kids that I'll be teaching, next year. They're all on a website called Synergy, which I use to take attendance and grade them. This site also shows me each of their faces. I was curious to see who was on my list, and...
Two years ago I had the year from hell. I was given the most difficult kids in the school to work with due to the massive behavioral issues. I could handle them now, but that was my first year in teaching and I had never had to use some of the rougher tactics that I learned that year during my training as a teacher. It was "baptism by fire", they said. Anyhoozlebees, I had two block classes (two hours apiece instead of one), and those were the roughest classes. Then, after that four hours, I had a Freshman class. They were good kids for the most part, but there were a couple kids that liked to get on my nerves. There was one particularly that I recall who would use any excuse in the book to be a jerk, including his personal favorite: clearing his throat extremely loudly to get attention.
I bring that up because while going through my roster for next year, that same kid's name popped up in my fourth hour Junior class (for those of you playing at home, he transferred to the school I work at now shortly before I did). The rest of the kids seem to be the normal demographics, but him... This is gonna be an interesting year. I hope he's... matured since then.