Teachers went back to work yesterday. Students come in on Friday for a half day. I spent today painting parts of my classroom. I’m new at this school, and my room was a wreck. The walls are the standard blah beige. The last teacher got frisky and used brilliant blue to badly paint window partitions, bulletin boards, wood cabinets and doors, trim…UGLY. I couldn’t function in a room like that. It was messing with my head, distracting me. I was imagining myself getting lost in a lesson as I stopped to ponder that paint color. Why? Why would anyone do that?
Yeah, I did the painting, because admin said they wouldn’t/couldn’t because it had been painted a couple of years ago. I saw no proof of that. The room was also dirty. I’m exhausted. All that work, but it does look 90% better. I’m reserving the 10% for the old cabinets and desks. Can’t do anything about those.
Tomorrow, I will work on my bulletin boards. I like doing those, so that ought to be relaxing. It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes a group of 12 year olds to mess up this room. I dare them. I will paint them with that hideous blue paint and send them running home to their mamas.
