Friday!

Even though this school is great, it's still nice that it's Friday.
We do have an obscenely large number of days off each school year, all things considered, but at least our students here attend for about 40 more minutes each day than the average NYC high school student.
That is critical for getting folks to read and write more.

A near altercation occurred in 10D yesterday. An Albanian boy took a blue ball from his bag for some reason and somehow a small Dominican boy ended up passing it around under desks with his friends. The Albanian boy--Kosovar, actually--tried to get it back to no avail. He then told the Dominican boy, "I got you after school"==with stern eyes.

A Yemeni boy, who looks about 30 years old and is supposedly married and moving back to Yemen at some point in near future, then came in with the Albanian boy: "I  got you after school," he said to the small boy, purely without humor.

I pulled the Albanian and Yemeni boys out and had them speak with Mrs. C. next door. The Albanian boy came back in and asked me meekly if he could rejoin class. The Yemeni boy must've been unrepentant because Mrs. C. kept him out.

Thankfully, nothing seemed to come from this. It was sad seeing this in our school. In my old school it would've been the order of the day, in fact not much of a situation at all comparatively speaking, but here those things are not in abundance, thankfully.

All else is pretty well, though.
Entire campus was on a "hard lockdown" earlier, as a black briefcase with duct tape was found outside the building. No student was allowed to leave rooms they were in. This made our kids about 12 minutes late in leaving the cafeteria and students were crazy while arriving late (delays and adverse situations like that tend to always set off teenagers). But, as they say, all's well that ends well.