I wish they all could be like him...

So here is a good student. His name is Derrick. I wish I had more like him. In fact, really what I wish is that more students were like me. Where are all the students who think they are smarter than the teacher? Where are the ones who will challenge me, look up new words and say weird phrases to me they learned from their cousin in San Antonio?

I wonder what Melissa has to say about this. I bet she shares my desire. Where have all the students gone? Is there not still one in the land? Am I the last of the believers? Surely God has placed a remnant somewhere - perhaps they are all in Bloomfield Hills. Surely there are but a few at Hendrickson High School.

Pep rally today. Everytime I go there I wish it had more pep. The band is good, but the planning is atrocious - and so is the sound system. I have half-offered to set it up for them but then thought better of it. Tonight I will go to the first football game and try to manage Cadence and Eli by myself. Sweet.