I have no words
I was running very late this morning because my oldest daughter decided that she wanted me to french braid her hair for her school pictures today. I got them done, her hair looked great, and I left the house about 15 minutes later than I should have. I would have been fine if I hadn't been assigned duty this week, so I totally missed that. I am incredibly thankful that I work at the same school my mom does, so she picked up my duty for me this morning. PHew.On my way to the main building from my car, the head custodian stopped me to tell me that many of the classrooms were flooded in the 6th grade hallway. OH YEAH. It does tend to flood a bit in there when it rains, but for some reason I wasn't thinking that the damage was going to be that bad. For the past four years, if it rained outside, there was water in my classroom. It's not easy to reinforce how important education is when there are six buckets catching leaks from the ceiling. My ceiling has holes in it where the tiles have become so water logged they have come crashing to the ground. Really, my students are beginning to think nobody knows about them.
After today I'm beginning to think they are correct in their assumptions. I was hesitant to open my door when I finally reached my room, so I did it as slowly as I could. Little Amalia though, she was trying so hard to be helpful so she barged ahead of me and plowed into the room. She should have been wearing waders to avoid the water on the floor. I was flabbergasted. There was two inches of water on the floor, and it was still flowing freely this morning promising even more of a pool. I couldn't believe how much water my room could hold. I actually had to study the floor to figure out why it didn't flow out the door. Haha, turns out the floor isn't level. Imagine that.
I couldn't remain in my room, so I quicky moved all that I needed into the library, only to find myself joining two other teachers who were forced to abandon their rooms as well. It is a sad day in American Education when teachers are forced out of their classrooms because of water damage from a simple rainstorm. My students were as discombobulated as I because of the move, and it took us a while to get into the swing of the day. I am very appreciative of all of the students in that class this morning though. Had it been my fourth period class that had to move the entire classroom, we would have fallen apart. I had a great group of students this morning.
I survived my first two classes this morning. During the middle of the second class, I had to send a student to my room to pick up my stapler. She came back looking white as a sheet. She said that as she was wading through the lake in my room, one of the ceiling tiles fell. So I decided to go back to survey the damage. It rained all day, so I figured that the damage would get worse. I didn't want to be right, but unfortunately I was. Almost all of my ceiling tiles fell out, and my light fixtures were starting to fall out as well. Thank god there were no students in there, otherwise we would have had injuries.
And to top it all off, the air conditioners are still on. So even though the temperature outside never got above 55 degrees, we were subjected to freezing air being blown at us all afternoon. By the time the bell rang at 3:05, it was 46 degrees in the library. I have learned that I need to keep a sweatshirt or a sweater in my classroom because the temperature in there is so picky, but unfortunately, my sweatshirt was wet. So it did me no good.
Despite the rainy day, we had a positive ending. My husband found out he is getting a brand new squad car, and we got approved for our home loan. So my family and I will be able to move out of this 1200sq foot apartment, into a 2789 sq foot house. I am so happy I'm in tears.
posted by lobo5747 @ 3:38 PM
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