If you have been reading here anytime at all you know that our lives have been consumed with a state to state move, new jobs, and new circumstances. I thought I would miss our house, yard, back yard water view, great neighborhood, and my relaxing refuge- the garden tub. Surprisingly no. I LOVE being back here and am absolutely loving my job. Maybe it is because this is where we met and spent our first years. It could simply be that it is an attractive area that is great for the family. I don’t know, but I do love being back. Starting a new school was professionally the best thing in the world for me. What is the difference? No clue. Before I thought it was the grade level that I disliked. Freshman are a different breed. I also thought that it could simply be the subject. I think the subject had a lot to do with it, but not everything. MS Studies is at the bottom of my list of subjects I want to teach…somewhere just above Economics. I love teaching World History, but that isn’t all that makes the new school better for me. The kids are just nicer. I haven’t been completely disrespected, insulted, threatened, or even blatantly disobeyed. For the most part the students come in and do what is asked of them. Never before in my teaching of 9th grade have I been able to make an assignment at the beginning of the period and it be done without having to stay RIGHT on top of the students. The students bring their books to class and they even have necessary supplies. Not the case before. I don’t know what makes them different, but I like it.

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