Re: Exactly what I am talking about Catsister. Exactly.

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On 9/22/11, Catsister wrote:
> Thanks for the compliment, muintenoir (sic--sorry I deleted your name
> with the proper spelling. Feel free to complain about me to the person
> you're sitting next to, just loud enough so I can hear it.)
>
> It's the little things that are annoying. Today I had my two non-AP
> classes back to back after lunch--my least favorite day in the
> rotating schedule. In the first class, there are 12 kids, but about 6
> are disruptive. I had 4 of them last year, but there were more of what
> my colleague calls "buffer kids" to set a better tone for the class.
> One kid had clackers given to her by a coach at a party (why are the
> teams having parties at the beginning of a season? And giving out
> annoying toys? Why?) I had to take them away from her. Then she and
> her friends started singing Christmas carols. It's like this every
> day. During my brief lectures, they ask stupid questions. They're not
> really disrespectful, they do their work more or less (so far--ask me
> again in a couple of months), but they are immature and disruptive. So
> what can I do?
>
> I can keep them after school for five minutes. That's it. Or I can call
> the parents, but that can backfire if they believe Darling's word over
> mine. It can also make the kids angry and looking for revenge, if they
> got in trouble at home. This year, we have no detention, no
> disciplinarian, and a principal who tells us to be nice to the
> kids--but oh yeah, she saw someone wearing the wrong shoes.
>
> Class #2 had lab. They went above and beyond the call of duty. One girl
> put her finger in melting caramel to see what it felt like, one girl
> decided to clean and broke a beaker, one girl was supposed to burn a
> piece of paper in a safe container, but it got out and--I had to stamp
> it out with a bottle of lemon juice (it was a very small flame). They
> acted like a bunch of know-it-alls. Everything I said, they had a
> better suggestion. Finally, I lost it and yelled at them. They're all
> basically good kids, and I basically like them all in both classes,
> but this is what kids are like these days. No fear

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