Today started off good and got bad pretty friggin' quickly. Before relaying today's events, I want to state that I have not received a response to my email that I posted yesterday. Here's how to have a crappy day in just a few easy steps:
1. A student told me she didn't "give a f^ck" when I asked her if she cared about truancy. This of course was after she had told me that she did not come to school on odd numbered days.
2. 10 minutes after step 1, a girl left my class after I told her she wasn't on my role, I told her to tell her teacher that she wasn't on my role. She told me I should tell him myself. Then in the ensuing couple of minutes she managed to call me a "little white-boy," a "white bitch," and tell me she was going to kick my ass.
Both of these girls were in 8th grade.
3. A gang fight in the cafeteria during lunch kept us on code red status the rest of the day. That means no one leaves the classroom. I got bitched at for escorting, that's right I was with them, to the restroom since they needed to go.
4. 2 of my students did not return on-time from lunch. After 25 minutes I went and tracked them down. No problems after that, though this in chronological order happened before number 3.
I should have been a lawyer, or a doctor, or a musician, or a painter, or a recording engineer, or... The best part is that other than number 2 none of this stuff bothered me. I've been desensitized.
Ryan, I know what your talking about with the suspensions you refer to, but when you deal with stuff like this on a daily basis, you tend to over-react sometimes. Its not right, but fear does funny things to you. That's not to say I agree with the cases you mention, but I'm just offering a bit of an explanation as to why some of those decisions probably got made. Public education can be a very scary work environment, and fear often leads to poor decisions.
1. A student told me she didn't "give a f^ck" when I asked her if she cared about truancy. This of course was after she had told me that she did not come to school on odd numbered days.
2. 10 minutes after step 1, a girl left my class after I told her she wasn't on my role, I told her to tell her teacher that she wasn't on my role. She told me I should tell him myself. Then in the ensuing couple of minutes she managed to call me a "little white-boy," a "white bitch," and tell me she was going to kick my ass.
Both of these girls were in 8th grade.
3. A gang fight in the cafeteria during lunch kept us on code red status the rest of the day. That means no one leaves the classroom. I got bitched at for escorting, that's right I was with them, to the restroom since they needed to go.
4. 2 of my students did not return on-time from lunch. After 25 minutes I went and tracked them down. No problems after that, though this in chronological order happened before number 3.
I should have been a lawyer, or a doctor, or a musician, or a painter, or a recording engineer, or... The best part is that other than number 2 none of this stuff bothered me. I've been desensitized.
Ryan, I know what your talking about with the suspensions you refer to, but when you deal with stuff like this on a daily basis, you tend to over-react sometimes. Its not right, but fear does funny things to you. That's not to say I agree with the cases you mention, but I'm just offering a bit of an explanation as to why some of those decisions probably got made. Public education can be a very scary work environment, and fear often leads to poor decisions.
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