not a good day

Today was a pretty terrible day. When I got back from lunch, I got my coffee cup from my desk and topped it off in the teacher's workroom like I always do. When I drank it later, it tasted funny - turns out a student had, while I was gone, spiked it with the Purell hand sanitizer that I keep on my desk! 5 kids turned him in on the spot. He's an honors student, too. :-(

After the initial hubbub (the school nurse had to call poison control, etc...) I had to sit in on this kid's suspension meeting - out for 10 with a possible expulsion. He admitted it and apologized over and over again. I was extremely upset - for one thing, another teacher covers me and *should* have been at my desk the entire time. For another, I deal with the worst of the worst, and those kids wouldn't even do something like that. I never expected it from an honors kid that I get along with really well. I think my heart hurts more than anything else.

They sent me home about an hour early...