The Roof is on Fire

It's very weird being in a building that is used mainly for meetings. Most people don't even know that I work here. I'm in the back of the building behind a couple sets of double doors. Usually it's very nice, nobody bugs me, I can go out and meet the world if I'm so inclined, or I can stay back here, play my tunes and do my work in peace. Of course this wonderful working environment was disrupted this year when they put in a school right next to my area. Literally right next to it. I have nothing but a wall now between me and a school.

Well, not so much a school as a holding pen for kids who have been expelled from other schools and are now in the last phase of their scholastic experience with the district. From this particular school , which has two classrooms for kids from 7th grade to 12th grade, they will either be able to re-enter a regular school site, or be removed from the district forever. Today a genius in this school next door started a fire in the boys bathroom over there, which caused the fire alarms to go off, and I got to stand outside for a bit while four fire engines showed up with their lights a-goin' and their sirens a-blazin' (and yes, I did take a video for my soon to be 5 year old) and moseyed up to the roof and put out the fire through the air vent at the top of the bathroom.

This whole thing took about an hour to complete and the kids were hoping to get to go home, as I heard them talking about it. And also, their administrator mentioned that she was talking to the main district office to see about letting them go home. However, those hopes were squashed when they were told that we had room in our Multi-Use room over here so they wouldn't be going home, but would be all crammed into another room together. To learn. I don't think they learn anything, I think they're getting dumber as the days go by.

I also found out that the two teachers that are normally assigned to the school were over here today for a class on something, so the teachers that were there at this last chance school were actually subs. Most subs have to worry about getting hit with a spitball or chalk in the eraser or something. Here? The kids will burn the school to the ground if you don't pay attention. Fun stuff.