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...is way up this morning (peaking, as it were).
Yesterday I had an unruly student removed from my class. He was cheating by copying from another's notebook. After I took the notebook the, "F-you's" and "bullshit" started coming out of his mouth.
As I lectured him, and after he told me to "shut up" the fifth time, I told him to get out and called security. The security person and the principal met up in the hallway with the student.
So what did the principal do after listening to the kid whine about being innocent?
The principal came into my room, sat down to do an "informal observation," and later wrote a scathing review of the class. He stuck it in my mailbox this morning.
He complained that I was "reading a survey" that the students had to check boxes to complete, and that they should have done it for homework instead. That the students weren't "engaged" enough.
Well, Mr Brainiac, it WAS given for homework, AND was a class assignment 5 weeks ago, 5 weeks, but most of them didn't have it done and the ones who did it, some just checked anything which means they didn't read it. (BTW, this was part of the work the principal wanted me to give out.)
I figured they didn't want to read 100 questions, or that they couldn't understand the words, and rather than failing them (because it is a necessary part of the coursework), I would do them a favor, read it to them, and just have them check the appropriate box, but nooo, I'm expected to teach 16 year-olds words they should have learned in fourth grade. What a crock of shit.
What a f-ing asshole. That's exactly the support that caused me to get stabbed last year whereby I almost bled to death.
I am livid. I'm so sick of some of the assholes I work with.
How is a teacher supposed to maintain a healthy learning environment when the thugs are unopposed by management?
What I could do, with a room full of intellectual students who can read, write, and do more than simple arithmetic, and actually think for themselves? Ohhh, cherish the thought.
I graduated third in my high school class in English and have a Philosophy degree. Maybe I'm the problem, but hell, even my 9 year-old daughter is reading at a ninth grade level. She has a higher reading level than any of the 120 13 to 16 year old students I teach, and they're all going to college. (Only first, someone has to teach them it's not spelled "collage.") Ain't life grand!
Yesterday I had an unruly student removed from my class. He was cheating by copying from another's notebook. After I took the notebook the, "F-you's" and "bullshit" started coming out of his mouth.
As I lectured him, and after he told me to "shut up" the fifth time, I told him to get out and called security. The security person and the principal met up in the hallway with the student.
So what did the principal do after listening to the kid whine about being innocent?
The principal came into my room, sat down to do an "informal observation," and later wrote a scathing review of the class. He stuck it in my mailbox this morning.
He complained that I was "reading a survey" that the students had to check boxes to complete, and that they should have done it for homework instead. That the students weren't "engaged" enough.
Well, Mr Brainiac, it WAS given for homework, AND was a class assignment 5 weeks ago, 5 weeks, but most of them didn't have it done and the ones who did it, some just checked anything which means they didn't read it. (BTW, this was part of the work the principal wanted me to give out.)
I figured they didn't want to read 100 questions, or that they couldn't understand the words, and rather than failing them (because it is a necessary part of the coursework), I would do them a favor, read it to them, and just have them check the appropriate box, but nooo, I'm expected to teach 16 year-olds words they should have learned in fourth grade. What a crock of shit.
What a f-ing asshole. That's exactly the support that caused me to get stabbed last year whereby I almost bled to death.
I am livid. I'm so sick of some of the assholes I work with.
How is a teacher supposed to maintain a healthy learning environment when the thugs are unopposed by management?
What I could do, with a room full of intellectual students who can read, write, and do more than simple arithmetic, and actually think for themselves? Ohhh, cherish the thought.
I graduated third in my high school class in English and have a Philosophy degree. Maybe I'm the problem, but hell, even my 9 year-old daughter is reading at a ninth grade level. She has a higher reading level than any of the 120 13 to 16 year old students I teach, and they're all going to college. (Only first, someone has to teach them it's not spelled "collage.") Ain't life grand!
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