Murphy's Law

Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

Well, that law came to life today at work. I can't go into details but here's a quick rundown of how my day looked.

*Warning: This is meant to be just a venting process. It's a really tough job, but I'm definitely learning so much from this experience.*

1. Arrived at work 10 minutes late and was told that one of our students would be staying in our room for the next 3 days for punching someone in the face.
2. 15 minutes later (before school even started) we get radioed to come down and pick up the very same student for another confrontation. Security got radioed to come and help escort student to our class. (I'm in the classroom documenting and waiting to receive the student) 5 minutes later I heard someone say he ran out of the school and the campus officer is called.
3. 2nd period, we get a notice that one of our students was accused of bringing a gun to school. By law, we are required to treat every threat seriously so we search for his backpack and investigate his locker. He gets sent down to our room with a teacher and he is pissed. He normally has a huge anger issue, but thankfully we square everything away and assure him since nothing was found he is not in any trouble and he gets sent back to class.
4. 3rd period the student who ran off is brought back and disrupts our class. He ends up bringing another student into his mischief and they both get sent on an Intervention (discipline). It takes almost an entire hour to get them calmed down and able to do their punishments.
5. The student who ran away tries to get off of doing his punishment by asking for food, pretending to have a stomachache. (Funny how he didn't have one for the past hour he was tossing paper airplanes and talking with his buddy). We don't let him off the hook so he slumps to the ground and requests the nurse. By law we have to oblige and the nurse comes and inspects him. He really turns on the waterworks and after 20 minutes of superb acting, gets wheelchaired to the nurse's station. (We all know what he's doing but can't do anything about it)
   
6. During lunch, I go to the cafeteria to shadow the student who got drawn into trouble. We got halfway through before he decides to try sneaking up on our Assistant Principal and taking his walkie. I see this and am sprinting over to tell him to back off, but the AP notices it and tells the student to go to our room. The student gets pissed (who knows why) and refuses to, and refuses to listen to me as well. Our head teacher gets radioed and after 10 minutes, the student finally heads to the room, cursing.
7. On the way, another student in our program follows us saying he wants to join us. We tell him he's gotta stay in the cafeteria but he ignores us and just eats his chips and follows us. After escorting the student to the door, I escort the chip-eater back to the cafeteria and hear another of our students cursing and looking upset. End up calming him down (positive!) and am radioed to come back to help with the classroom.
8. Because both the students in Intervention are good friends, they are having a difficult time controlling, so one is sent over to my room and I work with him on calming down and doing his punishments. We actually end up having a good talk (positive!) and he promises to stay out of trouble the rest of the day.
9. As he leaves, another of our students comes and tells us that his friend showed him weed. I escort him to the AP's office and he asks me to stay with him (he's afraid of getting in trouble) and we take care of all the paperwork and I take him to his class. Later that period, the student who promised to be good stops by and requests to not go to the party because he's afraid of getting into trouble so he asks to go to study hall (positive!) and I take him there.
   
10. Last period, the student who ran away just does not listen to any directions and is such a handful it drives all of us crazy. I have to escort a different student to the bus because he tends to wander, and he keeps trying to run off, but I finally bring him to his mother who was to pick him up. 5 minutes later I get radioed asking if I dropped him off, because apparently his mother is looking for him. This is freakin confusing cuz I specifically remembered bring him to her, but apparently he went back to get his work and his mom was looking for him.
11. Got to go home with a throbbing headache.