I love that the kids will listen to anyone with a book in their hands. It's some lucky charms that I will use forever in teaching. I spent this morning reading one of my new favorite young adult books. Percy Jackson and all of his adventures. I use character voices while reading so some of the characters are really cheery and some sound like Dimmu Borgir. I rasp my voice against a tuned up version of AC/DC and crawl it down the white-board. Reading in front of classes gives me so much pleasure. It's like being a motivational speaker Chris Farley style while reading. 

Woah woah woah

I managed to say, "If you finish in less then 20min, you're doing it wrong." For the directions of the test I gave. I was also told that some of the students think I spend too much time on my computer. I only did for the last week because we have had so many areas of quiet time it isn't funny. Today has been awesome though. I sent two girls to the Principal because one managed to hadokun leg splash the girl with her foot. Obviously it wasn't her fault right. I mean when I kick someone almost taking them to the floor its not my fault. I didn't do shit. It was my foot. I don't have any control over what that maniacal beast might do. We got to watch a moooovie which was nice. I spent time grading papers while they were busy fighting each other on the playground. I don't know what this school is going to do with this class. It's a battlefield a battlefield.

faxing cats.

Hyper drive my friend

Holy shit huuuuuge weight lifted off of my shoulders. The principal called Divas mom and talked her through it all. She explained that her child wasn't in trouble for getting hit which was obvious. But she also talked to her about some of the other garbage her child has been pulling. I am entirely relieved about the situation. I've talked to this particular parent before and she is not a pleasant individual to have a conversation with along these lines. Not even aboard the Millennium Falcon, she'd suck the awesomeness out of that.

What to do Pontius Pilate

I don't know what in the foxtrot to do with diva or the parent. I am really at a loss. I have talked to the child to the point of a breakdown. Bawling while telling me why they are being ridiculous during class. The reason she does it kills me but I can't lighten up on her actions anymore then any other child. And believe me I have cut her some breaks. Kit-Kats full. The parent wants to know why there can't be better communication with the teacher...AKA ME. And I agree to an extent. In the last month I've been here I should have called 15 of the parents in here but haven't. I haven't because I feel as though I'm overstepping some boundaries. I don't know what to say. How do I tell one parent their child contributes to the class in every way possible. While telling another parent their child is an inevitable monster if they don't go to counseling relatively soon.
The amount of kids in my class that really need a counselor is unbelievable. Everything from social details to private matters. If you think you need counseling or have a child that needs counseling please get help. 
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What's one to do?

I took the semi-lazy way out during grammar today. I let a student teach, I told him that he needed to take the book and call on people. In fact today turned me into being the laziest I have been the entire time I've been here. I kept calling on different people, giving them the teacher's edition and then letting them do all the work. It's really interesting to watch them get pissed and yell at the class. They really know how I feel about it. It's refreshing. Probably as refreshing as Orange Juice if someone would let me drink it. bullshit. 

I got a not from a parent today being a pompous ass. She wants to know why diva is in the middle of every fight out there.Not fight, altercation. She wants me to call her every time a student is mean to diva or every time diva acts out. the whole reason this note even got to me was because diva was smacked in the restroom. The 2 children were joking around and rough housing when one clipped the other in the face. I was pissed and sent both down to the principal...I didn't give them a detention I let the principal deal with it. After the principal got the story, she wrote them up and sent them back. I had nothing to do with the punishment factor. I am really not going to get shit on from some pompous parent believing the child is only in the wrong 25% of the time.
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AAAAA

Although I don't find this guy funny anymore sometimes this is how I feel...

We spent today in silence. Not really. We had 20min of silence because all they did was talk this morning. I can’t stand the incessant discussions. If this was another class…older, then maybe this would fly. But they don’t get work accomplished when they are talking. Most of the time 2-3 kids just sit there and stare at me.

Oh the pencil sharpener how you abuse the fuck out of that. I’m surprised it hasn’t tried to commit suicide  by plummeting off the shelf already.

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I'm becoming a cynical bastard.

You know those Monday mornings when you get to work just a little bit later then you wanted and since then everything’s a bit skewed. Well in the end everything went better then expected as of 9am this morning.

Why are you talking? No really…why…I just don’t understand it. All you say is the same shit over and over. Can I go to the bathroom? I don’t know can you? I now know why teachers say this all the time. They get tired of hearing the same 4 questions and decide that it’s in their best interests to not make themselves go insane.

“Do we have to do it?” 

“Ugh what kind of question is that? Didn’t I just tell you to do something 3 times already?”

... best end of day, I just made a kid who never talks scream out a story... otherwise he'd get a detention lol. He did it and we clapped. Good times, good times.