BARRY' CORNER - LIVING IN ELKMONT

So today I’m leaving school and the middle school basketball team was practicing. One of my former elementary kids was talking to a friend and I overheard this ...”coach Pugh’s been here forever”.... today I would agree. The weeks before Christmas break seem to drag on forever. It’s like the limbo time when your alarm goes off in the morning and you decide 10 more minutes but you lay there and not rest and you get nothing productive from it. 

That’s what these weeks feel like to me. Telling kids to stop talking, stay in line, keep your hands to yourselves, give me that remote, spit out that staple, no, you can’t see who can’t spit the highest....you know. The Christmas commercials, decorations, and that gift from the bowels of the earth the “Elf on the Shelves” cause some kind of momentary “lack of intellectual” thinking in our young. It’s like the running of the bulls trying to get them from the building to the gym and back. I break a sweat and have to use starting blocks to keep up. They lose their minds!! 

Yes it’s true we the educators of America get an average of 2 weeks off for Christmas vacation. After the weeks leading up to that the much needed rest goes all too quickly. 25 years of pre-Christmas bedlam! Whew!! So parents smile when you see us...give a nod of support... and try not to show your absolute giddiness on the first day back of the second semester! Have a good one !