Kill me. Kill me now.
Oct. 18th, 2006 08:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melwilIf I have to teach year 7 tomorrow, I might have to scream.
Today's class was shocking - absolutely no respect for anyone who wasn't their regular teacher - when I kept the class in, one kid just stood up and walked out. When I was trying to deal with him, another one jumped out the window.
I prevented one fist fight during class time. When the day finished, I wasn't able to keep them apart with the flood of children bowling me over, so they started hitting in to each other. Being the only teacher around, I was the one who got to get in the middle of a fist fight.
Did I mention that these children are significantly bigger than me?
The Principal was called in during the day, but he said I did well compared to most supplies. He seemed pretty positive about possible job opportunities once he sorts out satffing numbers, so I'll drop my resume up in a couple of days.
But tonight I'll be drinking red wine and trying to forget that today happened, even though . . .
I MADE 100 HOURS OF TEACHING TODAY!
Today's class was shocking - absolutely no respect for anyone who wasn't their regular teacher - when I kept the class in, one kid just stood up and walked out. When I was trying to deal with him, another one jumped out the window.
I prevented one fist fight during class time. When the day finished, I wasn't able to keep them apart with the flood of children bowling me over, so they started hitting in to each other. Being the only teacher around, I was the one who got to get in the middle of a fist fight.
Did I mention that these children are significantly bigger than me?
The Principal was called in during the day, but he said I did well compared to most supplies. He seemed pretty positive about possible job opportunities once he sorts out satffing numbers, so I'll drop my resume up in a couple of days.
But tonight I'll be drinking red wine and trying to forget that today happened, even though . . .
I MADE 100 HOURS OF TEACHING TODAY!
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on 2006-10-18 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
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on 2006-10-20 01:00 am (UTC)Congratulations! And well done on dealing with your hellion crew, too. Things were never at quite the fisticuffs-in-class for me lastyear, but I did have a few walkouts and a lot of headgames, and the no-respect thing too, so I appreciate the sort of thing you were going through.
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on 2006-10-25 03:21 pm (UTC)hehehehe, at least they only are doing that to substitutes, we used to do it to our year 8 english teacher Mr Bishop ... hehehehe :D
except there'd be one person walking out the door, another climing in the window, others throwing skinks into the ceiling fan and killing them, another one trying to suffocate himself in his pencil case/squish his head under his desk/cut his neck with scissors/suffocate himself with string/etc etc ... and there was also a teachers aide to help the kid who kept trying to kill himself in class.
Something to think about next time you have a shitey class. Ahh ... good old days :)
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on 2006-10-25 09:29 pm (UTC)Though, any story of your classes at high school put my teaching into perspective *g*
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on 2006-10-25 09:48 pm (UTC)Twas mostly three kids doing that too. Ahh good old times.
And we were only a year older than the class you were teaching :)