Biggest Loser

On Friday we got to take the whole senior class to Dave & Buster's (link just in case you don't know anything about it, like I didn't). In short, it is Chuck E Cheese for adults with an arcade and adult food. It was a reward from my principal/superintendent for reaching our goal of 100% FAFSA completion by our students. This was a huge victory for us, one that the teaching staff poured a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into.  

It was great to see my students have unadulterated fun. This wasn't fun tainted by physics problems or concepts, or fun combined with stress in a real competition. This was just fun. I don't think they get that a lot.

My students got free food (quite a spread actually) and game cards to play. Although we ran out of game cards and I sacrificed mine (I'm really quite the white knight, in case you didn't know), I did manage to drink my weight in Diet Coke and convince a few kids to use the 'minutes' on their card so I could play them.

From the competitions I did participate in, I earned a reputation for being the biggest loser. I literally lost every single game from air hockey to basketball to car racing. I tried to start a rumor that I was letting them win, but to no avail.

At the end of the day, I got a picture with 19/21 members of my advisory. One student was absent and one was still in the arcade when it was time to go (which I figured out right after this picture). In this picture, they are all holding out their dog tags with their cap and gown pictures on them. I'm wearing one that a student gave me. I'm also laughing because the girls said I looked too nice in the picture and that I needed to look hard. This was a pure joy moment.

For the record, there's Will, Dawan, Delionte, Chris, Larry, Mikel, Keyon, James, Montay, Eric, Leon, Jeremiah, Adafa, Trevon, Dionta, Jevon, Dorian, Will, and Cameron (Korin in arcade and Alexis absent)