The few, sparse days right before a somewhat lengthy break are full of absolute pain and hate. Mostly on the part of the teachers. The students lose all moral compass and do what they can to be as obnoxious and pathetic as possible. And most of this is just purely internal, inherent childhood ridiculous behavior.
In my experience, 45 adults and 850 students are not a healthy mix when both sides want desperately to be away from each other. While the adults have the advantage of, you know, thought and rational reasoning; the 850 students have the advantage of strength of numbers and the general mob mentality of wanting to sneak and pull anything on the teachers. Even given a few seconds of nonadult supervison, the kids will suddenly slip into psychotic break mode and turn into unrecognizable versions of their former selves.
Case in point, a few examples of the strangeness of the past few days.
* The boys' bathroom pee issues have intensified to the point that finger pointing has now started and the paranoia of dribblig a little on the side means something new altogether.
* The game of "how-many-kids-can-fit-under-the-teachers-desk" is played every time the teacher happens to turn his/her back to the desk.
* Games of sac tag have dramatically increased and random boys can be found curled in the fetal position at various points through the day.
*Absenteeism is so rampent that when you call out Ferris Beuller's name, you really can hear crickets.
* Homework? What's that? I never heard of that.
* The phrase "Please sit down and be quiet" is now replaced with "Get yo' butt in the seat and clamp it.."
* More inter-school emails are swirling discussing how important it is to partcipate in the Secret Santa project, and please don't forget your secret santa.
* It is the longest week ever known to man or woman
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