Dress rehearsal

So, all of my teacher friends and I spent the week in training and in classroom setup.  It's all set, now.  I have a room where everything is in relatively sane order and I know all of the stuff I am supposed to know.  I also have a handy binder full of reference material in case I forget anything.

Training and professional development sessions before the school year starts are some kind of necessary evil, and if nothing else, I think they give teachers a band of brothers feeling.  We were all in it together, so at least we had that.  It's all like a dress rehearsal that we have finished up.  We're all probably preparing materials and flying a holding pattern for now; the children return to us tomorrow.

I already saw a few of mine this week, though.  I ran across a couple after the convocation.  Our District has a big pep rally style event nearly every year, and some of our students performed at this one.  We have very talented singers, dancers and actors.  It was the sole redeeming quality of convocation for me, but then again, I have always hated pep rallies.  Last night, I saw one of my newspaper kids.  His father is the president of the Dads club, and I went to a Dads club gathering and fundraiser at their house.

I wasn't able to stick around for the whole thing, but I was there long enough for Austin to take a selfie with me and Cas in it.  I would have been fine with that.  I was even fine when he Tweeted the image.  Heck, I was Kool and the Gang when he wrote #booze on it because I had a beer in my direct proximity.  I was not all that cool when he tagged the school newspaper in the Tweet.  Use your head, kid.  The official Dallas ISD account follows the school newspaper.  The director over the feeder pattern area and a member of the school board follow that Twitter feed.  I have gone in and removed the tag.  I don't want the school newspaper to be tagged in a photo with the hashtag booze and a photo like this: