ugh, just ugh
so i've been teaching english to a 15yo boy which could be held back in september for the past few weeks; i'm payed, of course, and it's really good to have some more money in my wallet. i kinda feel more independent, i can go to the city and buy whatever i want and it's fucking awesome, people.
the only problem is with the kid. i mean, i think he's a good kid and all but he's so shy i feel like talking to a wall. he replies to everything i ask with mmh i don't know, no i'm not sure etc etc. i may not be the most patient person in the world but: wtf, boy? wake up, ffs. you're going to be held back if you don't wake up!
he doesn't know what homework he needs to do, what units of his book he needs to study -- he doesn't know anything! and his mom is worse: she thinks i am the one who has to know what his son doesn't know. hello? what was he doing when he was supposed to attend school? where was he when the teacher talked about the exam and what he had to study? i understand he's shy, i am too, but to this extent ??? that's not shyness, that's something else completely. it's fucking not paying attention, it's thinking everything will go away if you don't think about it.
guess what? it doesn't. and i'm really an expert here because i used to think the same.
i understand he's fifteen and all; he wants to go out with his friends, play all day etc etc but he needs to study more seriously or next year he'll really be held back. and he needs to wake up because i'm there only to teach him english grammar not telling him what his teacher said or what exercises he has to do. that's what you do at school, honey: you pay attention, you write down everything that seems important to you, you fucking write down information on your exam since that it's the only thing that can save you.
you can't expect i know what the exam will be about because a) i've never had the possibility to be held back and b) certainly not in english. i don't know how these exams are done, which exercises there will be and which there won't be. that's what you need to know and then tell me so i can work better with you.
i feel like nothing is organized, here. i feel like he expected me to wave some kind of magic wand and rearrange everything. i'm sorry but that's not what i do, i'm not mary poppins.
i really hope he'll change next year or he'll be seriously held back and that's nothing i can do, in that case.
it won't be my fault. at all.
the only problem is with the kid. i mean, i think he's a good kid and all but he's so shy i feel like talking to a wall. he replies to everything i ask with mmh i don't know, no i'm not sure etc etc. i may not be the most patient person in the world but: wtf, boy? wake up, ffs. you're going to be held back if you don't wake up!
he doesn't know what homework he needs to do, what units of his book he needs to study -- he doesn't know anything! and his mom is worse: she thinks i am the one who has to know what his son doesn't know. hello? what was he doing when he was supposed to attend school? where was he when the teacher talked about the exam and what he had to study? i understand he's shy, i am too, but to this extent ??? that's not shyness, that's something else completely. it's fucking not paying attention, it's thinking everything will go away if you don't think about it.
guess what? it doesn't. and i'm really an expert here because i used to think the same.
i understand he's fifteen and all; he wants to go out with his friends, play all day etc etc but he needs to study more seriously or next year he'll really be held back. and he needs to wake up because i'm there only to teach him english grammar not telling him what his teacher said or what exercises he has to do. that's what you do at school, honey: you pay attention, you write down everything that seems important to you, you fucking write down information on your exam since that it's the only thing that can save you.
you can't expect i know what the exam will be about because a) i've never had the possibility to be held back and b) certainly not in english. i don't know how these exams are done, which exercises there will be and which there won't be. that's what you need to know and then tell me so i can work better with you.
i feel like nothing is organized, here. i feel like he expected me to wave some kind of magic wand and rearrange everything. i'm sorry but that's not what i do, i'm not mary poppins.
i really hope he'll change next year or he'll be seriously held back and that's nothing i can do, in that case.
it won't be my fault. at all.