April Fool's Day

So, only 4 weeks left- already. As soon as I get into a placement that feels like it might be teaching me something, it'll be done. I taught most of the day today- Monday I just felt too rusty and unprepared. Things went pretty well- though I still feel mostly clueless about how to discipline this age group. We got a smartboard- a bluetooth device that lets me write on the computer screen wirelessly. So far I can see it helping a lot with classroom management, because I no longer have to interact physically with the board to get things done. I simply walk toward a disciplinary issue and it fades away most of the time.
The discipline system at this school is so dumb. It's in four stages like they typically are. 1)warning 2)educational assignment 3)detention 4)removal to the dean. There's one glaring problem: it doesn't restart, at all. So while I need to be issuing warnings or detentions, I can only go to the next step or higher- not lower. It makes no sense, and it leaves me feeling powerless most of the time.