I warms my heart to hear someone say that they love teaching even when they are in a district with 37 kids in a class!!! The system needs more people like you CaliBasco!!

It has been two weeks since school started and tonight is the first night I am able to view MM in over 3 weeks!!!

I teach Kindergarten and I always forget what the first month of school is like with the little ones. I am exhausted. But I love it!!!

Whenever someone asks in the first few weeks of class, "how are you doing?", my standard reply is..."Ask me in a month"!

laduque, who's already dreaming of her Spain vacation NEXT summer!

laduque: How's the Costa Brava doing? I'm thinking of coming to SD for the SDSU/BYU football game...we'd like to stop in for din-din. Where are you located?

As for the class size question: Since we're in California and barely got a budget passed, we've had to make "concessions". What it boils down to is that each teacher cannot have over 180 students total in their five periods. That's averaging 36, but I've got two classes with 30...so technically, I could put 40+ in a class as long as I don't cross the 180 threshold. Convoluted at best, but I live with it.