2 More Days (Unbelievably)

Today Derrell was back from vacation. His family had gone about a 1.5 weeks ago to the graduation of a surprise kid of the dad's, or something like that...Anyway, it's been the best week and a half of the year. He came back today.

This afternoon was Field Day. I don't really like Field Day, and it was pouring when I got up, so I was not excited. But by the afternoon, the rain had stopped (even though it was still cool out). The directions given to me by the pe teacher, who runs Field Day, was to divide my class into two groups. So I did. Pretty much, I divided them according to whose class they were going into next year. They didn't know that, though.

I sort of accompanied one group of my class during the whole Field Day. The other group seemed to have the other two 5th grade teachers accompanying them, so I stayed with one group.

Things seemed to be going well. It wasn't raining, and kids were laughing. Everyone seemed to be having fun. Then I get with my group to the second to the last station. One of the recess gals comes over to me.

"Derrell and Fzeen are in the office. They drew punches and made contact," she said. Hmmm. Upon further questioning, it seems they fought each other. I was to send their things once we got back into the classroom.

I saw our principal out at the Field Day, so I went over to him. "Derrell and Fzeen are in the office for fighting," I told him. He said he had heard that they were in the office, but hadn't been told the specifics. "Well," I continued, "Tomorrow we are having a reward and watching a movie in the afternoon."

My principal said, "They definitely should not be able to go to a class reward. Send them to the office tomorrow."

Cool, I thought. That was what I had hoped he'd say.

Later, I get an email that Derrell and Fzeen are suspended from school tomorrow. SWEET! Only two more days to go.