My classroom was broken into last night. I feel violated. I wasn't planning on going to school today, after all, it's Saturday and who wants to be at school? I had this feeling that I needed to go to school, and boy, am I glad that I did! The police were at school earlier in the morning because a bunch of cars had been broken into. :( They didn't check the rest of school, so when I arrived mid-morning I was the first person to realize that the middle school had been broken into. I don't like being the first person to discover something like this. I was shaking like a leaf and I'm sure that if I had looked in a mirror my face was pale (like it can get any paler than what it is now!)
They didn't take too much, thankfully! From my room I am missing my computer projector and the 15 foot cable that I had running from my computer to the projector. They didn't take the computer, weird, right? They took the crappy computer speakers that I had on the projector cart. They tried to take the VHS/DVD player, but since I had mounting squares underneath it, it was too much work. They tried to get into my filing cabinet; thankfully I had it locked! From my desk they took a half eaten bag of M&Ms, a box of granola bars, two rolls of duck tape, my left handed and right handed scissors, and all of my pens and pencils. Random, right? Honestly, who take pens and pencils from a desk drawer. I had a couple of bucks in my desk, but they didn't take that. They also didn't take my nice computer speakers. I'm not upset that they went through my stuff, but what gets me is that they went through my student's lockers! Honestly, leave my students out of this! The protective "mama" in me came out. So, I'm planning on having my kids go through their things Monday morning. Hopefully nothing is missing! If it is, I'll add it to my list for the insurance company.
I feel (maybe it's just me) that my room received a lot of damage...at least it's how it looked. There was stuff EVERY WHERE! I had glass all the way up to the front of my classroom! Crazy, right?!? My classroom wasn't the only one broken into, and I wasn't the only one who had stuff taken out of it.
Funny story about the break in. So, our middle school is a bunch of portable buildings, and our hallway is an outside deck. On the deck we have a pop machine with a sensor light that turns the pop machine on when someone walks by. Apparently, the people who were breaking into the classrooms thought that it was a camera and took a cinder block to it. They also attempted to break open the pop machine in order to get the money. Crazy! I thought that it was funny!
I'm trying to look at the bright side of things, and not take it personally. Hopefully my students won't take it personally either. At least this way I get them to clean out their lockers! :) Yay for getting a clean classroom! :) Do you think it will last for six weeks when school is out for the year? I'm thinking not, but one can hope right?!? I'm also thinking that things can't get any worse than what they already are.
In August, I decided to go on one last more vacation before school started. I flew out to MN to visit my friend Sarah and also went to Nikki's wedding! It was an amazingly fast weekend, but well worth it!
