My brain is fried

This week I want to quit my job. Everything is too frustrating and too hard. I yelled in class. For seriously. More than once. Why will they not listen? Today's classes actually went better. This is in comparison to Tuesday's classes, after which I nearly cried. So better is used figuratively.

My students have a rough draft a paper due tomorrow. It's basically a book report/analysis. I had them talk about the book in their journal today. About ten of them have not started reading it yet. The final draft is due a week from today. This is all very discouraging to me.

And yet, most of my students claim to like me. If this is true, then why do they insist on being so disrespectful? Then, the students who cause the most disruptions come up to me and ask me if they can have extra credit to bring their grade up. I try to gently tell them that maybe paying attention in class and turning their work in would bring up their grade. And that I give quite a few chances for extra credit every week, but they do not take advantage of it. That would probably help their grade too.

If Tim is reading this, Happy Birthday.