First Year Teacher
Thursday, August 21, 2003
HARMONY MY ASS
Today a kid sort of threw a desk at me. She is this girl who I was afraid to disclipine because she is so angry and scary looking. So finally today I decided I would do something about her horribly disrespectful attitude towards me. I was right to be afraid of her. By then end of ten minutes, she was screaming at me and telling me to fuck off. Then she pushed her chair at me and sort of hit me in the leg. Ugh. Help me. My kids are pretty bad. I am losing the "high expectations" that Teach for America harps on all of the time. These kids have been in eighth grade before and they don't mind doing it next year, too. I give them every opportunity to get the answers for an upcoming test; including giving them the damn answers, and they still just sit there and glare at me or sleep instead of writing them down. This kind of sucks. I need a vacation. ¶ 9:54 PM
|
Today a kid sort of threw a desk at me. She is this girl who I was afraid to disclipine because she is so angry and scary looking. So finally today I decided I would do something about her horribly disrespectful attitude towards me. I was right to be afraid of her. By then end of ten minutes, she was screaming at me and telling me to fuck off. Then she pushed her chair at me and sort of hit me in the leg. Ugh. Help me. My kids are pretty bad. I am losing the "high expectations" that Teach for America harps on all of the time. These kids have been in eighth grade before and they don't mind doing it next year, too. I give them every opportunity to get the answers for an upcoming test; including giving them the damn answers, and they still just sit there and glare at me or sleep instead of writing them down. This kind of sucks. I need a vacation. ¶ 9:54 PM
Monday, August 18, 2003
My advice to any new teacher:
It is a MISTAKE to be nice. Really. I was totally against that philosophy, at first. I felt like, if I went in there and let them know I care about them and that I won't give up on them- all that bullshit- that they would rise up from their position and suddenly be begging to learn. I was wrong. They are walking all over me. They frustrate me to no end. I am sick of them.
Well, not all of them. But a lot of them. Tomorrow I am going in there and giving some detentions. No warning. They have been warned all week. It is the time for the smackdown. Heaven help them. There is going to be some learning in my classroom tomorrow, boyyee. ¶ 5:37 PM
It is a MISTAKE to be nice. Really. I was totally against that philosophy, at first. I felt like, if I went in there and let them know I care about them and that I won't give up on them- all that bullshit- that they would rise up from their position and suddenly be begging to learn. I was wrong. They are walking all over me. They frustrate me to no end. I am sick of them.
Well, not all of them. But a lot of them. Tomorrow I am going in there and giving some detentions. No warning. They have been warned all week. It is the time for the smackdown. Heaven help them. There is going to be some learning in my classroom tomorrow, boyyee. ¶ 5:37 PM
