Hi Haters

Today was my first day of school. I am finally living up to my blogging name and tackling the teacher subject, that I have been hiding all summer from. You see, I like many teachers live for my summer and refuse to even think about school during those summer months. When August starts creeping up that's when my back starts to seize up and I think about the impending doom that awaits me on Wilkinson Rd.

I work in the hood or rather a new school that the children have turned into the hood. Everyone walks in and sees the school in it's 10 year old state and says, "wow this place is really nice!" I beg those people to look much closer.

During a regular day of school I see a few of the following things:

1. Parents in slippers
No ladies and gents not kids but parents in the office in their tweety bird slippers trying to get someone to take them seriously.

2. Shuffling children
Our kids enjoy shoes very much and do not like to crease their new kicks. So the children do their shuffle walk down the hall, day in and day out.

3. Graphic Tees
These are t-shirts with sponge bob or another character which typically depict the character as a thug. There is always a lot of gold and sponge bob almost always has a grill.

This brings me to the highlight of my first day back. I walked into a teachers classroom next door to find a child, that is one of our most wanted. He was wearing a shirt with a picture of our smiling president waving and the words, "HI HATERS." I walked out of the room hanging my head in shame.

Don't get me wrong I love my kids, but sometimes you just want to smack some sense.