I am so proud of my son, he graduated from college in two years with a degree in math, passed both teaching exams and now has his first teaching job at the school where I work. He will be teaching Alg 1 and Geometry. He starts Tuesday, which is the fourth day of the 2nd semester.
I am not ready for the 2nd semester, I am, but I am not. I am overjoyed that we are half way done with the year, but I have been sick a lot this year as well. I think it is the extra stress from one less conference period.
Cheerleading has been fun. I love it, I want to continue with it, I just really need to learn to become a better coach, I need to learn the cheers and things like that. I know the football cheers, but not the basketball cheers. I have a small team, only 7 girls, I lost one at the semester. My only problem seems to be that my girls have no respect for me or the team. My captain does not want to be there, she uses anything as an excuse not to be at a game. I overheard her say the other day to the other girls that she does not like me and only respects the 9th grade coach. She wants to goof off during practice, will not do anything I ask and is just disrespectful. I have told her if she is going to be that way then she should just resign. Her bad attitude rubs off on the others. I have spoken to the varsity and freshman coaches about it and they both say she should quit too. They say I have been doing a great job of handling the situation, but now it is time for our head football coach to step in as well. My girls as a whole have been horrible all year, I have 4 that always pass their classes, and of the 4, 2 do not show up for things, 2 that are always in trouble, 1 that cannot pass her classes. Not sure what to do anymore with them, I have benched them, ran them, exercised them, to no avail. Nothing works, they just do not care. I do not want to give up on them, but I think that is where I am. I am ready for the next set of cheerleaders. The freshmen that will be trying out for next year are awesome, they want to cheer, and they want to have fun, I am psyched about getting them. They will have there own problems I am sure, but at least they have respect.
