One of my lovely students jammed pyrometric cones into the kiln sitter hole in my kiln....this resulted in me having to dismantle the kiln sitter to get the cones out! Lucky I'm handy or else a lot of projects would not have gotten fired. I will totally find out who did this as they like to snitch each other out.
I was asked by a male student "what's a cunt" in the middle of my class. These are urban HS students btw....I'm sure they learn what the word cunt means by the second grade... My response, that is not an appropriate word or question and please leave my room and go to the office. His response...I'm not leaving. My response...if you don't leave my room I will call security and have you escorted from my room. His response... I'm not leaving. Security comes (security is a total joke btw)....he's not leaving....VP comes he's not leaving. My whole class had to leave the room so the VP could finally get this kid out of my room. He apparently displayed the same type of behavior last Friday and had to be escorted from that room also.
Now of course I have to deal with all this crap while sick. Which is what has made me grumpy. When I'm grumpy I yell at the kids. Today I lectured them on the proper place to use certain english language words and the school environment is not a proper place. Then I went on to lecture them on why it's important to keep your hands to yourself and off of other people's property. If you can't do that you will end up in jail and be someone's new girlfriend. Then I remembered that most of them have already been in juvy and/or have a probation officer (we have a probation officer at the HS) so I wasn't scaring them! Then I told them if they liked me even a little bit they could show me so by not making me go completely insane in the last 4 weeks of school. I also emphasised to them that crazy people have little if no hand coordination and it would be extremely hard for me to type in the correct grades where they belong. Here's what I got......Sorry Miss, we can't help you, you're already crazy!
I was asked by a male student "what's a cunt" in the middle of my class. These are urban HS students btw....I'm sure they learn what the word cunt means by the second grade... My response, that is not an appropriate word or question and please leave my room and go to the office. His response...I'm not leaving. My response...if you don't leave my room I will call security and have you escorted from my room. His response... I'm not leaving. Security comes (security is a total joke btw)....he's not leaving....VP comes he's not leaving. My whole class had to leave the room so the VP could finally get this kid out of my room. He apparently displayed the same type of behavior last Friday and had to be escorted from that room also.
Now of course I have to deal with all this crap while sick. Which is what has made me grumpy. When I'm grumpy I yell at the kids. Today I lectured them on the proper place to use certain english language words and the school environment is not a proper place. Then I went on to lecture them on why it's important to keep your hands to yourself and off of other people's property. If you can't do that you will end up in jail and be someone's new girlfriend. Then I remembered that most of them have already been in juvy and/or have a probation officer (we have a probation officer at the HS) so I wasn't scaring them! Then I told them if they liked me even a little bit they could show me so by not making me go completely insane in the last 4 weeks of school. I also emphasised to them that crazy people have little if no hand coordination and it would be extremely hard for me to type in the correct grades where they belong. Here's what I got......Sorry Miss, we can't help you, you're already crazy!
You've got more patience than me. I have a few friends who teach and some of the stories they've come back with have been insane. Feel better soon!
ReplyDeleteWhat Miss Liz said. Take care, Mary!
ReplyDeleteWow. That's one thing I could never do! Give me 100 two year olds over 10 high school students any day!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe he wouldn't leave the classroom!!
I hope tomorrow is a much better day for you!
This is why I switched to kindergarten. Ugh. You have the hardest job in the world (and some of us know it and will give you due credit for the hard work you do!). Hang in there - summer is waiting!
ReplyDeleteahh well done for persevering, precisely why I teach Early childhood, If I want them to leave the room I can pick them up
ReplyDeletei'm so sorry you had a day like that! sounds like you need a nice bath, a funny movie, some hot tea, and a comfy bathrobe to cuddle up in. at least that's what usually works for me! and you're not crazy-you're normal. anyone would have done what you did!
ReplyDeleteThe hot bath and glass of wine option and curling up to a good old movie sounds like just what the doc ordered. You're a complete heroine Mary and we all *heart* you for it. Take some CS Gas next time to those little toe-rags!!
ReplyDeleteOh...with you being so handy with DIY, a little voodoo doll works wonders too as a vintage pin cushion to work that ol' Black Magic on the kids!! haha.
ReplyDeleteeek these kids today I tell ya!
ReplyDeleteHope you feel better soon!
I need a shot glass and a bottle of tequila!
ReplyDeletehahahahaha
*I'm not kidding! ;)
omg, the adventures of you ....to be continued!~
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