my word. sometimes these kids just take it out of me.
with my seniors we had to stay after the bell because they wasted so much class time. i waited looking at the clock, like you do with grade school kids, waiting for them to notice. ugh. this was after i woke up two sleeping (snoring even) kids. ugh. you have to be here, you might as well join the fun.
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monday afternoon i also had to send one of my freshmen to the office. i REALLY hate doing that. for some reason, it just screams EPIC FAIL on my part. surely i should be able to maintain the status quo in my own classroom. but sometimes it just doesn't happen.
this particular young man was not doing anything. at all. out of pure rebellion. i asked him if he had a question. he asked one that i didn't understand and when i asked him to clarify he responded with,
"I thought you were a teacher. I'm sorry you're so slow." (please read that with as much hatred and sarcasm as you can muster).
He basically called me stupid in front of an entire class and thus, i asked him to leave.
he wouldn't.
i opened the door and asked again.
he wouldn't.
i called "security."
he left. but not without telling me to "SHUT UP" and saying, "You're so stupid."
and we're done. have a nice day, but you and i, we're through.
saddly, he returns to my class tomorrow. hopefully i will have found my happy place by then and be able to forgive and forget. i'm guessing that won't have happened, but i am an extremely good bs'er. so i should be able to con a very unwise 15 year old.
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when i bring maelle to school, some of my students see us. yesterday in fact, i had taken her to my classroom to get a little more sleep before school and was carrying her down to the daycare and several students stopped me in the hall and said how cute she is before asking me:
"Is that your baby?!?"
me: nope. i stole her and brought her to school with me.
student: oh, really?!
me: yes, this is maelle. she's my baby. (internal dialogue: obviously.)
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student: mrs. frasier, i have a question.
me: ok, if it's related, shoot.
student: it is. did they have cars during the time this book happened?
me: let's walk through this. how was the concentration camp destroyed?
student: a bomb.
me: how do bombs get where they are going?
student: oh, right.
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this one is just sad.
yesterday a student asked me how to write a paper on the computer. he'd never done it before. can you believe a publically educated kid from texas who has reached the 9th grade had never typed a paper before. he didn't even know what program to open to start.
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this one is also sad.
senior student, let's call her jane has not been in my class for a few weeks now. she apparently also didn't come while the sub was here. jane told me that she didn't think it was worth her time to come while the sub was here.
ok, so that may be a somewhat fair statement.
however, i am currently receiveing emails from her (during 1st hour of the day, she is in MY 1st hour) of the papers that she should have turned in in january. so basically she is sitting at home sending me emails to turn in her assignments.
my reply to her email was this: Jane, it would be better if you were in class rather than just emailing these.
we'll see what she has to say to that.
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and that's all we have for today. :)