and today is definitely one of those days. Why do I hate my job today? Well, to make a long story short, one of my students threatened to kill me and another teacher today. Why does he want us dead? The other teacher told him to get to work on an assignment instead of harassing a classmate. He wants me dead because I told him to quit poking the girl next to him with a sharp pencil. I don't know, I have this thing about students keeping their hands to themselves and respecting others' "phone booth" of personal space. Also, I have a problem with a student poking another student with a sharp object. Call me crazy!
I did the right thing and reported the threat. What does this get me? A whole bunch of paperwork and the chance to "process" with the student. I have enough paperwork with my regular job and with the homework for my library science classes. Quite frankly, the only "processing" I want to do with this student involves my foot being firmly planted in his nether region! How about someone else "processes" him. I really don't have the need to sit and listen to some lame excuse/apology from this student that everyone knows he really doesn't mean. That's the new thing this year at our school. When a student does something wrong, they have to fill out a think sheet about what they did until they are ready to process with the teacher. Here's an idea, put him in in school suspension until he "gets it" that harassing a female classmate, poking another one with a sharp object with the intent to break the skin and make her hurt so he can laugh, and threatening to kill teachers is unacceptable behavior that will not be tolerated in school. But that might damage his self-esteem. Forget the good students he constantly harasses on a daily basis and what effect he has on their self-esteem. By the way, he targets female classmates and teachers. So, that's why I hate my job. Today, it has sucked.
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don't you wish the common sense fairy would swoop down on our schools and wack them really hard over the head with his/her wand?
( don't want to imply that a fairy has a particular gender in case it damages someone's self- esteem)
all those folk in jeff city who think they know how schools should be run even though they haven't been in a classroom in 20 years...if ever, need to be run over by the common sense
18-wheeler!
if you'd like a good laugh to improve your day visit the four of clubbs and view miss eve's wacky hair day. cheered me right up :)
Thanks! I did and she's adorable!
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