I should really write in this thingie more often... but whenever I get home from work, my brain is so exhausted that I don't really want to use it in any way productive
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I love middle school but the coddling fucking kills me. Suck. It. UP.
It's been SO MUCH WORSE since the damn hurricane, too. It's like they all reverted back to 5th grade in those 2 weeks. I failed so many kids on my interims because they're being childish and giving me constant excuses for late work and so on and now I'm having a ton of freaking parents call and complain. Gahhh. Normally I love it, really. I truly enjoy most of my students which I figure is best I can expect. I mean, I have 110 kids, I lovelovelove like, 50 of them, and enjoy another 30 or 40. Pretty good numbers, I'd say. But today has been a crappy, crappy day. Ugh.
I have too many failing kids and parents who didn't give a damn until the second sememster. So now, I (against my will and my beliefs) have been accepting late work from various students to pull of their grade, in turn, making their teacher pull out her hair. I hate it! This bad behavior does not warrent reward or excuse! To aleviate this from happening in the future, I've forced myself to give more classwork assignments that are worth more than homework. SO - MY OMINOUS PAPER STACK OF SUNDAY DOOM awaits. damn!
I need to teach high school. I don't know how you love middle so much. I just don't get it.
Yeah, the whole failing things sucks. At Disocovery I didn't have a problem, my teacher and the administration didn't really mind if we had a lot of failing so...not as much late work or anything. But here? Failing is definitely frowned upon so I'm FORCING their grades up, oye.
Heh, I love middle for a variety of reasons. One, my high school experience was bad, just like your first middle one wasn't that awesome. At least here I have some kids turning stuff in, at the HS level I had none. I do like HS a LOT, actually, but I feel safer in Middle right now. Gifted middle school kids are very deep, not too sexualized, and love school and the teacher. I enjoy that feeling a lot. The material is fun to teach, too. I'm a YA Lit geek and I can't do as much of that with HS. And I really, REALLY hate getting up early so...yeah, I don't want HS right away for that very reason, heh. Just little things, you know? I see myself teaching HS someday too, for sure, just not right away.
DOOODE! I miss you too man! I was hoping that one of these days you would have returned my phonecalls and various myspace messages from long ago... I thought you forgot all about me :*( I MISS MY K-RON!
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It's been SO MUCH WORSE since the damn hurricane, too. It's like they all reverted back to 5th grade in those 2 weeks. I failed so many kids on my interims because they're being childish and giving me constant excuses for late work and so on and now I'm having a ton of freaking parents call and complain. Gahhh. Normally I love it, really. I truly enjoy most of my students which I figure is best I can expect. I mean, I have 110 kids, I lovelovelove like, 50 of them, and enjoy another 30 or 40. Pretty good numbers, I'd say. But today has been a crappy, crappy day. Ugh.
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I need to teach high school. I don't know how you love middle so much. I just don't get it.
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Heh, I love middle for a variety of reasons. One, my high school experience was bad, just like your first middle one wasn't that awesome. At least here I have some kids turning stuff in, at the HS level I had none. I do like HS a LOT, actually, but I feel safer in Middle right now. Gifted middle school kids are very deep, not too sexualized, and love school and the teacher. I enjoy that feeling a lot. The material is fun to teach, too. I'm a YA Lit geek and I can't do as much of that with HS. And I really, REALLY hate getting up early so...yeah, I don't want HS right away for that very reason, heh. Just little things, you know? I see myself teaching HS someday too, for sure, just not right away.
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