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"study" hall

Spring Fever. It hasn't happened quite yet but I can feel it, coming in the air.... So, I "teach" study hall. Well, administer or facilitate would be more of the words I would use to describe what I do every school day afternoon from 1-3pm. The kids are...kids. I have young kids at home that sometimes annoy me because of what they want all the time or NEED all the time. These kids, well, they have a different form of annoying that I'm not sure anyone, but a jr high teacher can understand. I will NEVER be a jr high teacher and I have a lot of respect for those men and women who do it well. There are a lot of not so good teachers. They aren't good becasue they only facilitate. It is such a hard time for these young people. They don't know where they are or where they are going. Some days I just think I can't wait for them to get into high school and wish they had the freedom of middle school again. There are days however that I look at them and want all...