Incidents in the life of.....

Thursday, September 30, 2004

I believe the children are the future.

I just called a bitch by one of my students. One of my friends has been called worse, and I always laugh when she tells me horrible her children are. Well, a few minutes ago, a little boy was standing in the hall telling students to "get your ass in class." I gave him a detention for profanity. He said, "I'm not serving this. You gone have to send me home." I said, "We will deal with that later. Now, all I want you to do is sign this detention slip." He signed it. As he walked off, he said, "I hate that bitch." These children are crazy. I wrote him a referrel and walked him to the office. I guess he can go home now. Yesterday at lunch, a little girl yelled to the other end of the table "Ya'll shut the fu** up." I choked on my cheeseburger. I couldn't believe she said that. Well, it didn't shock me that she said, just that she yelled it loud enough for the entire cafe to hear. A little boy in my 6th period came back to school today. He has been gone for a week. Two teachers were talking and he needed to get by. Rather than walk around, he siad excuse me and expected them to move. They didn't. One teacher told him to go around. He said excuse me again. She stood there. He then threw his shoulder into hers and said, "Oh, excuse me." What was he thinking? He is one of my fav students, but he is definitely a behavioral problem. I really don't have any problems out of him, but I know he is bad. I see some of the things he does to other teachers and he's just a mess. A senior football player in Rankin has been indicted for selling crack and he is still playing football. The coach got on tv and said, "He is young. He made a mistake. This one mistake should not ruin his career." First, he doesn't have a football career. Second, he should have thought about that before he started selling drugs. He was selling crack. Come on now. That's a bit much. I want to say nothing is wrong with him playing football bc he hasn't been convicted, but that's a serious charge. If I was the coach, he wouldn't play for me.
These are just the bad examples. There are several students doing well. We have practice test for the state test. One of my students scored 12.7 and the highest is 12.9. She's very smart and she is awesome in basketball. She plays the point. A little black girl was elected Student Council President and a black boy, VP. That's good, hecka good. They aren't failing tests anymore. Right now, they are researching Lincoln, Tubman, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, and slavery in America. I wanted them to do the Middle Passage, but I was scared of what they might find. They are excited and working hard. I cannot wait to hear their presentations tomorrow.
I have some money now, so today is definitely a good day, despite the bad moments.

Posted by Nik :: 9/30/2004 :: 1 Comments: