Crazy Town

In telling an old coworker about the complete insanity of this week (and keeping in mind that it is only Wednesday morning) this is what she said:

"It's like zombieland I think...they are the zombies and you guys are like the few people that are still alive against all odds trying to fight them off."

Best analogy I've seen.

Here's a brief rundown of the weeks events:
- Monday afternoon during a staff meeting, the principal had to go get a student who'd attached her bus driver. Now in the child's defense, the woman had it coming. I'll go to bat for that child any day, she's smart and good and wouldn't have attacked anyone without being provoked, and this woman had been harassing her for weeks. I won't get into details, and I'm obviously not advocating violence, but the child was pushed. And let me just say that she probably weighs 95 pounds soaking wet and beat the tail of a very big grown woman.
- Meanwhile, we found out that another student was in the hospital being tested for meningitis. We decided to self-quarantine ourselves. My coworkers with children didn't want to risk exposing their kids, and I didn't want to go sit in my house alone waiting to see if I needed a spinal tap. We all actually had a good time under crisis, and had someone deliver food (they left it outside the door) so we could stress eat. Good thing, because we were there until nearly 8 pm. Happily, it was not the contagious kind, but our student is still in bad shape.
- Tuesday (yesterday) I went with half of our staff (we have 4 teachers right now, and about 10 altogether with administrative staff) to NC State. It was not a well planned trip, but the kids behaved thankfully and all the walking wore them out. We got home at 7 (half hour later than planned), and the bed has never felt so good. I think I was asleep by 9:45.
- While we were gone, apparently one kid was throwing carrots at a girl in the cafeteria as a joke. He accidentally hit another girl a few times, and her boyfriend went ballistic. Threw a fire extinguisher off the wall, flipped a desk, the kids were scared. Needless to say, he's not at school today.
- Today, the juniors and freshmen are going on the field trip. They had to stop 20 minutes away, because one of the kids was having a nervous breakdown. He doesn't like all of our students, if you know what I mean.

I'm not going to be here Friday, I just hope nothing untoward happens tomorrow, because I can't take it.