What it's like to be a Public school HS teacher at end of year

Early this week I learned in the Washington Post that students in a local suburban high school are waging a campaign to allow cell phone use in school.
At lunch, at the very least, they say. And today a Post editorial actually endorsed the change. (If that happens, all the more reason to send your kids to private or parochial schools.)
Now our "Teaching Stories" author (Ynonymous) has sent along another description of her life as a high school science teacher in a local suburban public school district. Issue 3- End-of-School-Year Thrills helps to put the state of the adolescent mind into perspective. Why would we want to enable students to self-distract any more than at present? Read it. You'll feel like you're there in the classroom, but you'll be glad it's she and not you!