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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

May Should be Optional

May is not my favorite month. This might be a side effect of my day job (teaching middle school), but this month is always a struggle. I'm tired, overwhelmed, and fighting apathy (my own as well as my students').

In fact, I usually feel like my tail's on fire and the radio's broken, so I'm just screaming out the window: Mayday! Mayday! 


It's called May, right? May which means that are allowed to do something, but don't have to. As in "you may proceed" or "you may discard two cards." Or it has to do with permission: "come what may" or "mother may I?"

Try as I may, I can't summon a devil-may-care attitude about this. So, I declare the the entire month should be optional. What do you say? May I be excused?


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10 comments:

  1. Sarah FosterMay 17, 2017 at 8:48 AM

    LOL! Well, I'm not a teacher or a student anymore so May doesn't really bother me. But I remember it being a drag.

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  2. M.J. FifieldMay 17, 2017 at 11:53 AM

    I can see how May would be a tough month for teachers. So close to the end of the school year, and all. When I taught, it was a year-round program, so we didn't have an end-of-the-year, so May was never an issue for me.

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    1. Samantha BryantMay 17, 2017 at 6:48 PM

      It definitely is tough . . .and having the test-capades that have been amped up every year since I began teaching does not help.

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  3. Barbara In CaneyheadMay 17, 2017 at 6:21 PM

    As mom to a graduating Senior, I say May is entirely too hectic and crazy! I can hardly wait for what I am hoping is a lazy, slow June.
    Faith: #TheWordonWords at Life & Faith in Caneyhead.

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  4. Laurel GarverMay 18, 2017 at 4:12 PM

    I'm so with you on this. My middle schooler would rather do anything thank keep up with schoolwork by this point in the year, and my professor hubby is completely drowning in end-of-semester grading, committee meetings and graduation-related stuff he's expected to attend (in billowy doctoral robes, no less). Meanwhile I have to hold down the fort. Bleh.

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    1. Samantha BryantMay 19, 2017 at 4:48 PM

      I feel badly for my husband, the only Bryant not enslaved by the academic calendar. He gets all the suffering, but not the June, July or August down time.

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  5. AnonymousMay 19, 2017 at 10:09 AM

    I like May because in Michigan it means the weather is finally getting warm...although, it seems this year Michigan has missed the memo.

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    1. Samantha BryantMay 19, 2017 at 4:49 PM

      I've heard you've been getting late-year snow up there!

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