INFRINGEMENTS
In the last five days of work...
... a boy has walked out of class while I was in the middle of presenting my lesson.
"John, you need to be at your desk. Please go back to your seat now."
"Okay" as he proceeds to walk right out of class with a following of 2-3 curious boys who were "helping their friend".
... in the middle of a lesson, a fifteen-year old boy decides its cool to hang from the ceiling. He climbs up the window levers and "hangs out" as if he were doing pull-ups. After being called down and told that it was dusty up there anyway, he repeats this action ten minutes later.
... a teacher looks directly at a group of girls chattering away while there is a lesson in session. Their reply, "Whatcha' staring at, huh?"
... two boys get up from their desks and run around the class. The cause, one of the them has aggravated the other who was in a terrible mood and is about to get pummeled. After diverting them back into their seats, Nick gets up walks across the row and give George a couple of fists and a shouting match ensues.
... two boys return from the disciplinary room, amuse themselve by playing hacky-sack with the whiteboard duster and hits me in the arm. Should I send them back to the principal?
... in that same class session, a boy sits at his desk and spits not once, not twice, but four times in the classroom.
... I have been called names, been wolf-whistled at and even leered at by the high-school boys. "Hey Teacher, you are damn sexy!"
... a dustbin got thrown onto the door of the teachers' workroom and then the door banged at till the perpertrators got a reaction - us opening the door, to find that they had run off.
For all of these infringements, I have no idea what disciplinary actions can be taken or genuinely enforced. I wonder if teachers nowadays have no more authority to discipline and am beginning to weary about the future prospects of the kids and society in general. These will make up our masses in ten years. God help us.
Meanwhile, I think I will need a deep trough of emotion to stay loving to these kids.
... a boy has walked out of class while I was in the middle of presenting my lesson.
"John, you need to be at your desk. Please go back to your seat now."
"Okay" as he proceeds to walk right out of class with a following of 2-3 curious boys who were "helping their friend".
... in the middle of a lesson, a fifteen-year old boy decides its cool to hang from the ceiling. He climbs up the window levers and "hangs out" as if he were doing pull-ups. After being called down and told that it was dusty up there anyway, he repeats this action ten minutes later.
... a teacher looks directly at a group of girls chattering away while there is a lesson in session. Their reply, "Whatcha' staring at, huh?"
... two boys get up from their desks and run around the class. The cause, one of the them has aggravated the other who was in a terrible mood and is about to get pummeled. After diverting them back into their seats, Nick gets up walks across the row and give George a couple of fists and a shouting match ensues.
... two boys return from the disciplinary room, amuse themselve by playing hacky-sack with the whiteboard duster and hits me in the arm. Should I send them back to the principal?
... in that same class session, a boy sits at his desk and spits not once, not twice, but four times in the classroom.
... I have been called names, been wolf-whistled at and even leered at by the high-school boys. "Hey Teacher, you are damn sexy!"
... a dustbin got thrown onto the door of the teachers' workroom and then the door banged at till the perpertrators got a reaction - us opening the door, to find that they had run off.
For all of these infringements, I have no idea what disciplinary actions can be taken or genuinely enforced. I wonder if teachers nowadays have no more authority to discipline and am beginning to weary about the future prospects of the kids and society in general. These will make up our masses in ten years. God help us.
Meanwhile, I think I will need a deep trough of emotion to stay loving to these kids.
Labels: teaching
posted by The Chilibuddy @ 10:26 pm ::
5 Comments:
you poor little girl. that school can be a real pain in the ass. things havent changed. and you thought you'd seen in all at mg and ngee ann... oh no, now you know what i had to go through on a daily basis. yes it was very dramatic there.
i hope you arnt too upset with all thats going on in the school, you get really really jaded after a while, i hope you dont.
its good training though, having it hard during your first couple of months and hopefully and im sure it will be, fairfield has more... polished kids.
hang in there girl.
oh ly-ann i totally commiserate with you. i've been facing the same ordeal and somehow it doesn't get any easier as the days go by. very often the future just looks dismal.
i hope we will both realise what it means to depend utterly on Him and His strength.
God bless! And congratulations on the engagement. :)
i'm sorry you're having such a hard time in school. *hugs*
i hope God gives you some creative ideas soon about how to deal with these kids.
God bless you with that trough of emotions to hang in there. God bless you with grace for it is more than sufficient and to recognise that He is with you in your midst.
bunny
wao...thats crazy timez...remember to throw in stuff like talking to the blackboard and shouting at students who are not in the room..."who you tryin' to get crazy with, esse? don't you know im loco?"
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