Friday, October 15, 2004

Rambling for too long

This has been the longest week I have ever had and I we had Monday off! This was 9weeks testing week. I drilled the answers into those children's head. I gave them a study guide and made them complete it. Then we went over the study guide in class after they finished and once again before the test. I let them do the essays at home. They were evaluation questions. Recall would not have done them any good. They did ok. I have one more class's tests to grade. I do not like that 7th grade language class. I don't know if it is because they are 7th graders or because it's a language class. I know I don't like it though. I think it is because they are 7th graders and very immature. I showed them a movie today called The House of Dies Drear. It is such a good movie. I planned on showing it to my 8th graders because we covered slavery and the civil war. The movie is about a house that was once a part of the Underground Railroad and is now supposedly haunted. Anyway, all of my classes enjoyed it. The little white children liked it, too, even though there is not a single white person in the movie and the only reference to white people is about how they beat blacks. The house was owned by free blacks and is beauiful and filled with secret passages. It's good. I enjoyed it.
I think I will have about 10 students failing total. I finally got the official memo saying no grades can be lower than 60. I misunderstood the first time. I can give them lower than a 60, but the final average must not be lower than 60. I didn't give anyone a 60. I think my lowest average is a 63. This one little girl didn't understand how she had such a low grade. I told her because she is missing 4 assignments. She said she did them. I know she didn't. She doesn't do anything. I told her to find them in her notebook and I will record them in the gradebook. She said she threw them in the garbage. I told her there was nothing I could do about it. I gave her 60s. If she made the assignments up like she said she did, the highest she could make is an 80 anyway and if I averaged an 80 instead of 60, it will probably improve her grade by 3 points. That won't help because she has low test scores and an even lower 9weeks test score.
This little girl just sat there and cut her knuckles. These children are simi-retarded. What is wrong with them? I am going to turn her in. Perhaps she has some deeper issues. I got a memo at the beginning of class that said do not let them out unless it is an emergency. I gave her a band-aid and told her to sit down. She needs to see the counselor Monday. The bell is about to ring for them to go home, so she cannot help the student much right now.
I do not like our counselor. She is the cheerleader coach and not a single black girl is on the squad. I asked her why not and she said because they weren't good enough. That's bs because our cheerleaders are horrible. They cannot even turn flips. Even my neice can flip. They try to do toe-touches and look a hot mess. Then there is the one big big big girl. She sucks horribly. I don't really care if the squad is all white, but at least let them be good. So now they are trying to start a stepping team for the black girls. I don't know who is going to teach them bc all of the teachers in school are old and I couldn't step to save my life. Well, the bell just rang and I need to clean off my desk.
Have a good weekend. (I wish I could go to New Orleans.) I will.

Posted by Nik :: 10/15/2004 :: 1 Comments:

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