Re: Tired

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On 11/19/08, girl in gulfport wrote:
> I am sure you probably know this, but just don't let them
> even start. Try to end the conversation before they begin.
> If they argue, send them to the office....and don't ever
> respond to justify yourself. They will think they are
> getting the best of you.
> I am so sorry you are already "tired" and only just begun.
> It can be very frustrating.
>
> On 11/14/08, Tired wrote:
>> I am in need of some serious help here. I feel like I am
>> getting disrespected more and more lately. I don't know
>> what to do. I am following my classroom rules and
>> consequences. Everytime a student gets into trouble they
>> throw into my face that I started it, that I am trying to
>> get them kicked off of the football team, that they are
>> going to get me into trouble, that their friends will back
>> up their story, or that I am treating some better then I
>> do others. I am at the end of my ropes here. I understand
>> that there things that I could do better and I understand
>> that I am very new at this and I am probably doing things
>> wrong. However, that is not a reason for the kids to just
>> run over me. They blame it on my hormones and that is not
>> it, in fact I am nicer when I am pregnant than when I am
>> not. I am tired of the students screaming at me and
>> disrespecting me when all I am doing here is trying to
>> help them to succeed. I think about how I am away from my
>> babies everyday and how they are pretty much being raised
>> by someone else to come here and be disrespected by
>> someone else's child. I try to be nice to them and ask
>> them about their day or about their weekend and then I get
>> it turned around on me that I am bringing personal issues
>> into the classroom. My students feel as if I am favoring
>> certain students because some students do not get the same
>> punishment as some of the other students who do the exact
>> same thing that they do. I do not understand it and I am
>> not the one punishing the students. However, I get blamed
>> if my write up causes a student to get kicked off of the
>> football team because it is their 3rd time in ISD and that
>> there are still students who have been in ISD 4 or 5 times
>> and still out there playing on Friday night. I don't make
>> that call, yet I am the one who gets blames. Same goes for
>> ISD time and who gets licks and who gets suspended. I
>> don't know what else to do. I love what I do and I spent a
>> long time to get my degree. I went through over $50,000.00
>> in student loans, took time away from my children and
>> husband, struggled through years of college while my
>> family done without and this is my reward for that. All I
>> ever wanted to do was help students who struggled and now
>> everyday I would rather stand in a long welfare line than
>> come to work. I never thought that it would be this way
>> and some tell me that it is just because I am a new
>> teacher. But this is all I ever wanted to do...What are
>> your suggestions on what I should do? Should I just call
>> it quits now and go to walmart to work or what??? I need
>> some help because I feel as if I am not only making my
>> students unhappy but I am also turning into a person that
>> I never intended to be...
get tough. Never allow a student to argue with you. Show some
grit. I have been in a rural junior hight for 38 years. Make
some tough rules and be consistent. Write them up and throw
them out of class.

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