The move, to be frank, has been hell. I was blown away that I had over TWENTY former students show up to my room to help me out! It felt like school was still in session! I had kids who are preparing for college coming to help me, junior high and high school kids, and kids who just left my room. What a bunch of angels from God come to bless me!
We really worked like an army boxing things and working our tushies off....but even after they helped me for over 3 hours and we got SO MUCH done, STILL the classroom is an overwhelming, mind-numbing, insane situation....and then there is the whole reality that I will have to UNLOAD it all and start over again.
I know this sounds low on your totem pole of prayer priorities, guys, but please keep me in your prayers that I can get this done. I still ask that you also take away my resentment.
Update: the new teacher that I had to work with who was super rude, unfriendly, shady, and pushy this year who gets to keep her room as I'm being moved told a teacher friend of mine that our principal is ASKING HER to be involved in the hiring process of the new sixth grade teacher! Here I am a veteran of 16 years and someone who has received nothing but glowing evaluations for years and the respect of my students and administrators am being kept out and a first year teacher being asked in. It's the height of insanity and disrespect.
As an Orthodox Christian, I'm called NOT to care about such things as esteem, reputation, standing, and fairness, but rather care about humility and emptying myself out to be like the saints. I'm being a hypocrite lately and worrying about what is fair in the eyes of this world. I'm angry now more at my own INABILITY to stop thinking about how unfair and disrespectfully I'm being treated, than anything else.
Drama city.
Pray for me, friends.