The kids are gone.
We have three days of "in-service" days, which means we have regular hours but instead of teaching, we have meetings.
Meetings are largely with administrators, most of whom have never taught a day in their life. They scream at us about low test scores, insisting that if we only followed their curriculum (the curriculum that can't be followed because it's been designed by people who haven't taught a day in their life), we'd be better robots ... er ... teachers.
There will be no discussion of the fact that my seniors don't test comparably to other seniors because they have god awful home lives and/or have recently immigrated and read/write English on a fourth grade level rather than a 12th grade level.
That's my problem because I'm the teacher. If I just followed the curriculum, I could increase reading levels by 8 grade equivalents in one year! No problem!
I'm so out of this district.