My Clock Is Broken

I sit here gazing at a clock that NEVER MOVES. I know it has batteries and I know it works but the minutes are dragging by. The minutes? Even the seconds as the second hand, tired of moving so slowly I am sure, has fallen off and is resting at the bottom of the clock. The clock at the back of my room that HAS a working second hand barely moves either. I mean a second is a long time. OR.........perhaps it is because we are ELEVEN days away from the end of the school year and time has ground to a halt? At this time of year, it is so hard to be motivated and EVEN harder to motivate kids. So we (teachers and students) shut down and show up. We try to manage the time but as sick as we are of school the students are even sicker. They have spent their entire year focusing on the TAKS test (I teach juniors who have to pass it in order to graduate) and now that it is behind them, they are basically through with school. And I don't blame them. We have to teach EVERYTHING BEFORE the test so they can pass it and then we have 4-5 weeks of NOTHING. There is just so much busy work you can have them do and so many videos you can show and then you are busted. Nothing, nada, zilch...........That is where we are today. The weather outside is gorgeous, you can almost TASTE summer, and we are ALL tired. Yet here we are............in school..........trying to create something ELSE to teach these kiddoes and keep it upbeat and entertaining at the same time. I think after TAKS we should call the whole thing off. I mean we have met the state requirement...........so instead of "playing" school, we should tell the kids "you did the job, you have been assessed for mastery and we will let you know how you did, enjoy your summer,because if you failed you aren't going to graduate unless you take the test AGAIN!" And to teachers, "you taught your curriculum, you followed your scope and sequence, the test has been given, we will let you know your results, enjoy your summer because if results are bad you are going to lose your job!" and call it a day. And in the time it has taken me to write this...............the clock has NOT MOVED at all. I think it is surely broken. And there is something wrong with my calendar as well because there is NO WAY it can only be TUESDAY!!!!