Tornadoes, floods, Hurricane Katrina and middle schoolers

Harsh reality time: middle schoolers are not pleasant.

I am now an official volunteer in Mr. Polley's class at Tuttle School. Twice a week I help out in two classes, 7th grade and 8th grade Language Arts. The class is working on writing a disaster story (so half the class is writing about 9/11 and the other half is writing about Hurricane Katrina. Creativity abounds. Although, I think one girl is writing about a bear that attacks people). On the day they were writing their introductions, I saw about two kids working and had paper thrown at me for an hour. On the day there were writing their conclusions, I had to mediate an argument about who stole whose pen. Today the classes were off to the computer lab to type their stories. Half the class is Somali and using a word processor for the first time and the other half is all too familiar with computers. So basically I divided my time between giving lesson on how to use the spacebar and intercepting dirty pictures coming off the printer. Let's just say I was indespensable.