The students were awful today! I gave one kid a lunch detention for talking during silent reading (with fair warning), and he threw it in the trash. So now he has an after school detention. If he chooses not to serve that, I'll write the little turkey up for "failure to comply".
Ya know, I'm probably the easiest teacher these kids will ever have. I joke them out of their bad moods and try to accommodate periodic lapses of sanity...but I won't tolerate deliberate misbehavior...and that's what we were dealing with today. (NOT just me!)
When admonishing a student for talking, one of my "favorite" comments from him/her is: "I wasn't the ONLY one talking." That doesn't fly with me. Another favorite, when I tell someone to stop a particular behavior, he/she says, "I was just doing blah, blah." Huh? I didn't ASK you what you were doing. I told you to stop! And my all time favorite from a student who has just thrown something on the floor and feels no responsibility for picking it up: "That's what the janitors get paid for." I ususally go off on that poor soul!
Yesterday, one of my students asked, "Ms McNary, do you get sick when you get drunk?" I looked at the others in disbelief...and he followed with, "You look like a party girl!" I asked if it was the weight, the wrinkles, or the gray hair that made him think so...
I really need to retire!
3 comments:
Sorry Peg , I couldn't resist.
The kid that made the comment about "thats what janitors get paid for"
He/she must be a future union employee in training. Oh and just so I don't get trashed for that comment, I am a union member too. A good response to that kid would have been , and in a few years that will be most likely you getting paid for picking it up. What ever happened to the good old days when you could take them out in the hall with a great big paddle and give them what they deserved ? I behaved quite well in school because of that, I was terrified of it.
I totally respect the custodians in our schools. One of them is the sweetest little gal that you could ever have on your side. She is one of the reasons that I want to smack the little turkeys who think nothing of trashing the place.
Corporal punishment isn't against the law in Indiana, but our school district has a policy against it because of the sue-happy nature of our society right now. I wasn't the kind of student that ever had to worry about it, but the notion of being paddled WAS a deterrent for some. Humiliation works! Unfortunately, society frowns on ruining children's psyches now.
The other deterrent is phone calls to home--especially if you make the KID make the phone call, telling Mom or Dad what he/she did while teacher is standing right there. Oops!
The phone call would be a good idea if the parents actually acted on it , but I am guessing there are alot of parents who don't really care.
Here is an idea , take all the trouble makers , make a list of everything they did and make them come to school on saturday or early on a monday and have Judge Boles in there to speak with them, I am willing to bet if he hasn't changed since I was a kid, he could scare them into the right direction.
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