I'm too old for this!

I'm writing in the largest font I can find, and believe me there is a reason for this! As you all know, I teach high school English and love doing so, BUT, yesterday in one of my sophomore classes I actually thought it was the very first day of my teaching career. Some of you may know this feeling... 1. a myriad of faces you don't really know. 2. a myriad of faces you don't really want to know. 3. a class of 35 students with 27 being of the male gender, and 7 being female. That's not all, 10 of these 27 boys receive special ed. services, approximately 8-10 are hispanic (don't get me wrong, I love teaching all diverse groups, but our Resource Officer told me that most of those little guys came to the high school with a record that may or may not include a court record. I needed a long nap after that class, just to take myself away to my "happy place." Needless to say, there will be changes made in the class, but for the first time in my career, I began to rethink my career path. Today's been better, but maybe that's because I haven't had any students, yet...wish me luck!