Teenagers Schmeenagers - Brady

Rough day at school. I'm so over being a high school teacher. The students are not engaged in anything because they think it's almost summer vacation. Then, I had a couple of jerky encounters with my homeroom students. For example, some of them didn't take the time to write even their names on their "senior brag sheets," these papers the counselors ask them to fill out with all of their honors and activities so they know what kinds of things they can write on letters of recommendation. I mean, the school is going out of its way to help these kids out, and they just refuse to participate on any level.

Also, I'm a student council sponsor and elections are happening right now. After a ton of organizing and stress, I'm running the ballots through the scantron machine and another teacher points out that some kids haven't even filled them out right. For example, some filled in every single bubble except any of the ones that count for the people they were supposed to be voting for. Another kid wrote "What is the point of this?" down the paper. The worse was the kid who just wrote, "No gays."

I know that teenagers are supposed to be rebellious or whatever, but there's really no excuse for behavior like that. I mean - how arrogant and thoughtless.

Too bad they can't all be the perfect, sweet, never moody or spacey teenager I was. Ha ha.