Newest Blog: An assigned post, a week late
General Update:
-broke up another fight recently. Two males, a freshman and senior, got into it at lunch. I was 15 feet away, in a crowded cafeteria corridor, when it occurred, so the two had 10-15 solid seconds of thrown punches before I could break them up. This was my first fight in which I did not arrive on time to defuse the fight, but had to literally jump between swinging fists. Thankfully, as I jumped between the two, another senior grabbed one of the fighters around the waist and drug him towards the cafeteria door. What that meant was that I didn't get hit by many punches at all: as best I can feel, only a single punch hit me in the elbow.
After I took one of the combatants to the office, I walked back to the cafeteria to get lunch and monitor my class. Cue the movie scene: as I entered the cafeteria, the students caught notice of me and started clapping and shouting my name. From the girls came shouts of, "Mr. Walker, our hero!"
No joke.
I got a standing ovation when I returned. After I sat down, some of my seniors came up to me and said, "Mr. Walker, you must really care about this school. We've never seen a teacher break up a fight like that before."
-started bird-watching. I can now identify, with relative ease, red-winged blackbirds, mockingbirds, blue jays, cowbirds, cardinals, and various sparrows. It's better than identifying copied homework.
