What's Going On

It's been a rough week for a variety of reasons:

• We've been on inclement weather for two straight weeks because we are just getting out of a heat wave. Needless to say the students are starting to go stir crazy and teachers are feeling worn out.
• The boys keep destroying the bathrooms. Almost every day someone is throwing wet toilet paper on the wall, flooding the bathroom, locking the stalls, clogging the toilets with toilet paper on purpose, knocking the soap dispensers off the wall...you name it. I can't figure out who is doing it and I am frustrated! 
• We busted two boys smoking pot in the bathroom on Friday. I am really sad because both of them are on the supposed young men's leadership council due to all their troublemaking. It's really sad to me. I had to bring the school police out and one of them doesn't even seem scared. It's scary when nothing seems to work with students 
• Our public announcement system broke due to construction at the site and no one seems to really care enough to fix it.
• My SDC teacher resigned and I held her for a month to find a suitable replacement but the replacement I hired a month ago hasn't started and now I have to have a sub. Students' one on one aides seem to be rotating in and out and calling in sick etc. 
• My sixth grade classes are really really struggling with EVERYTHING! Even our strongest teacher is struggling. They are fighting, being disruptive, refusing to do anything, videotaping one another, vandalizing the bathroom....you name it!