Rough day

Some days teaching is the hardest job. Some days it is, simply, fun. Other days are in between fun and madness. Today, was one of those tough days. I don't know why-- but everyone was crazy today. By the end of the day, everyone looked completly fried. Why? I have absolutely no idea why the students decided it was a "free day" and complained throughout the day that they shouldn't have to "work" today. I tried to make today fun-- I video-taped them presenting their compare and contrast paragraphs. My new classroom management strategy has been to try and make the lesson so exciting and new that students would be heartbroken if they got in trouble (or kicked out). It didn't work! Today was so insane that they even ended school five minutes early and made an annoucement that all students needed to leave campus withing five minutes. For a few moments, I wondered if there was a bomb or some other horrible incident about to occur-- but I guess the principal (and everyone) was exhausted. There were a number of fights. I kicked out three students (and I am guessing a lot of teachers had similar trouble). On days like this, I have to wonder about classroom management. I mean, what would Wong do?