the lil angels
Maybe God is happy that I have been going to Bible study because my kids have been angels this week. Monday and Tuesday were a blessing, making the frustration of the past few months almost worth it.
almost.
For the first time ever, my kids are quiet when I ask them to be. They work when I give them work. They actually DO what they are supposed to do. I do not know if its the sense of inpending DOOM that awaits them next Thursday and Friday or what... SLC conferences are next week. I get to sit for 15 minutes with student and parents and chat with them about how their kid is a jerk in my class. It should be a blast. I have not really had any experiences with parents, and I am sort of expecting to see a lot of them. Quite a few kids are failing my class, so I hope to see their parents. A lot of kids also really like me (dont ask me why, I am so mean to them) and have said that they only want their parents to come see me because they like my class. Go fig. I make them clean the benches.
Anyway, they were wonderful on Monday and Tuesday and I was blown away.
Today, however, was a different story.
Today is something they call "end of quarter celebrations". All of the good kids who are getting >73 in all of their classes (on a side note, what a dork I am for not just saying greater than) get to go on a field trip... while all the BAD kids stay behind.
almost.
For the first time ever, my kids are quiet when I ask them to be. They work when I give them work. They actually DO what they are supposed to do. I do not know if its the sense of inpending DOOM that awaits them next Thursday and Friday or what... SLC conferences are next week. I get to sit for 15 minutes with student and parents and chat with them about how their kid is a jerk in my class. It should be a blast. I have not really had any experiences with parents, and I am sort of expecting to see a lot of them. Quite a few kids are failing my class, so I hope to see their parents. A lot of kids also really like me (dont ask me why, I am so mean to them) and have said that they only want their parents to come see me because they like my class. Go fig. I make them clean the benches.
Anyway, they were wonderful on Monday and Tuesday and I was blown away.
Today, however, was a different story.
Today is something they call "end of quarter celebrations". All of the good kids who are getting >73 in all of their classes (on a side note, what a dork I am for not just saying greater than) get to go on a field trip... while all the BAD kids stay behind.
There are a number of reasons this is stupid:
- lets put all the bad kids together in groups!!!!
- lets punish them by making them do work.... why would we EVER want them to associate schoolwork as a BAD thing?!?!?! we want them to like it and DO it.
- lets send half the teachers out and leave half to take care of things
- lets put the people who influence each other together!!!
- And the best of all... lets do a lab for science that uses MATCHES. Lets put fire in the hands of America's future inmates. lovely.
Okay, so they really arent that bad... but it was a LONG freakin day.
and in other news....
Ethan comes home tomorrow!!!!!
posted by FireWithin at 7:56 PM
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