Today I found myself saying the following to one of my sophomore boys:
"Can you please not peel your orange in the shape of a penis and two testicles?"
There's just plain not a lot of dignity in that. He tried to pass it off as an elephant with two big ears and a trunk, but seriously?
There are three more days. KC keeps reminding me that we're just trying to "keep the lid on." I fear the lid is off. Way off.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
There are four more days before winter break
I believe my favorite part of today was during lunch when a colleague started a conversation with me like this:
"Hey Rach, you'll appreciate this, I made a kid cry today."
I can see her point. I mean, today Tim and I tagteamed the shaming of a student who left used kleenexes in the middle of Tim's classroom floor. I called his math teacher and had her send him back to Tim and me for the shaming. I sneered at the kid who responded to my gleeful, "Hey kids, I finished grading your essays!" with "Took ya long enough." I scoffed at the student who asked me how many sentences should appear in his essay test. When he didn't let up, I mocked his suggestion that I would be the kind of teacher that was going to be counting his sentences. And finally, I told a student that if she didn't stop talking while other students were finishing their test, not only would I give her a zero on it, but it would fill my heart with gladness to do it.
That's the holiday spirit, no? It's going to be a long four days, folks. A very long four days.
"Hey Rach, you'll appreciate this, I made a kid cry today."
I can see her point. I mean, today Tim and I tagteamed the shaming of a student who left used kleenexes in the middle of Tim's classroom floor. I called his math teacher and had her send him back to Tim and me for the shaming. I sneered at the kid who responded to my gleeful, "Hey kids, I finished grading your essays!" with "Took ya long enough." I scoffed at the student who asked me how many sentences should appear in his essay test. When he didn't let up, I mocked his suggestion that I would be the kind of teacher that was going to be counting his sentences. And finally, I told a student that if she didn't stop talking while other students were finishing their test, not only would I give her a zero on it, but it would fill my heart with gladness to do it.
That's the holiday spirit, no? It's going to be a long four days, folks. A very long four days.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Christmas
It's currently 1:34 a.m. Around 10:00 p.m. tonight, I decided to do this:
I'm pretty proud of that. I even wrapped all of the presents we've purchased thus far. Dakota (as you can see) is wondering why in all hell we're not upstairs sleeping.
She's tired because this afternoon Jim and I took her for a walk, and then took her off the leash and let her run around in the snow at Groveland School. She ran back and forth between us, the sun was shining, the snow was still perfectly white, and I must say, it was a damn nice winter moment, even if it did make me miss the girls.
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