playing hooky

I'm working at a school now, as i've said. and this is a wonderful school, the teachers are great, the students are great. the district is struggling, but this place is strong. they've done things like get a program called Accelerated Reader that all the kids participate in. it encourages them to read, and allows them to read at their specific level and improve at their own pace.
They applied for, and got, a grant to buy promethean boards for every classroom. These are sort of a cross between a projection screen and a white board. if you write on it, it saves the notes on the computer. the students can work together and use it themselves. fantastic machines.

so what am i doing here?

the classroom i'm supposed to be in right now, the students love me, but the teacher obviously sees my presence as a burden. so i didn't go today. i spoke to the principal who's going to try to find a better place for me, and i'm going to talk to the teacher later, but it seems like i serve as nothing more than a distraction for the students. particularly the one student who i'm supposed to be helping. she won't let me look at her math homework, but she will show me all the toys she has in her desk to keep her distracted.

this isnt' to say that i'm not being utilized at other times of the day, there's just a few periods where i think, what am i doing here?