…. But not as mean as “John” was. Today started out like any other, the kids came in; we did a little morning math and read Hollis. The kids then went off to music and Scott and I talked about my lesson tomorrow (I have my first official observation tomorrow). When the kids were gone we were filled in on a little situation…. Our dear friend John has been, well, a problem child. He is the one I have been really struggling with because all of the other “bad” boys seem to have reformed and John… hasn’t. At. All. He’s been having some problems… SO today his issue was that he thought it would be fun to cuss at 1st graders… you know the tiny, just old enough to get school but still scared shitless of everything little kids… Ugh, is all I could think… Hasn’t this kid gotten it yet? He doesn’t have recess and yet he still finds a way to torture other children. So anyways when we transitioned into math about ¾ of the way through the lesson Scott went to go deal with this situation… With the big guns… AKA our principal who could put the fear of god into me so I would assume a 5th grader as well. So I was left to care for the children in our class…. Something I am totally comfortable with but MAN OH MAN were they not paying attention! Seriously I was better off talking to a brick wall… They were talking to each other, drawing… So I said ok, we’re done. Had them put everything away and sit at their desks for the last 5 minutes of the day. Just sit there. I went and sat my desk and pretended to write a note to Mr. Alverson… really I just wrote in my journal ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ…. But it was the idea that I was telling him and the fear that I was playing on. Ok manipulative I know, but I was willing to be a little mean if it meant that they would be better tomorrow… And really isn’t that what teaching is about? Hoping that tomorrow will be better… for the children, for me, for us as a nation and for us as a global community? Reaching I know, but truly, what else can we do but hope for a better day tomorrow….
OH WAIT… GLEE SEASON PREMIERES TOMORROW… so it will be a better day ☺
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