Why
I am a freak.
I got a list of the kids coming back from GED-prep (the ones I sent there) and about half I put into my class.
After class one of the kids asked why I'd sent him to GED-prep, giving his laundry list of reasons it was unfair.
It was actually a fairly good conversation. If I were them, I would rise up in protest against me instead of privately asking to talk to me. I would picket and boycott me and call me the bitch.
Instead, that doesn't happen until the next class period - they act like 3-year-olds. I have about four kids who are really great, four kids who are really obnoxious, and the rest "go to the dark side so easily" (something said once about our kids, and so true).
8 more Fridays ... though, I overheard the principal talking yesterday about me teaching summer school and I winced and turned to him and was like, "Um, so, like, I can't get out of that? You need me?" His answer was pretty good: "Well, of course you can do whatever you want, but yeah, we need you."
I was going to apply to Tulane law school because I heart NOLA, but I think I will officially make it The Year Of Languages (as Tami & I designated it) and not do anything that isn't non-English. And, if I do TYOL, then I could teach summer school and not let them down.
Oh, had my first home instruction session yesterday - the kid was a pain in the neck. Just wanted to talk about fighting and how he ditches school. And I'm like, "Dude, you can't ditch this, I'm sitting at your kitchen table." And honestly, when I just laugh at his whining and protests he was fine. He actually wrote a pretty good narrative, and once I helped him with planning it was pretty hands-off. It's just exhausting doing this one-on-one - more for him than me.
I got a list of the kids coming back from GED-prep (the ones I sent there) and about half I put into my class.
After class one of the kids asked why I'd sent him to GED-prep, giving his laundry list of reasons it was unfair.
It was actually a fairly good conversation. If I were them, I would rise up in protest against me instead of privately asking to talk to me. I would picket and boycott me and call me the bitch.
Instead, that doesn't happen until the next class period - they act like 3-year-olds. I have about four kids who are really great, four kids who are really obnoxious, and the rest "go to the dark side so easily" (something said once about our kids, and so true).
8 more Fridays ... though, I overheard the principal talking yesterday about me teaching summer school and I winced and turned to him and was like, "Um, so, like, I can't get out of that? You need me?" His answer was pretty good: "Well, of course you can do whatever you want, but yeah, we need you."
I was going to apply to Tulane law school because I heart NOLA, but I think I will officially make it The Year Of Languages (as Tami & I designated it) and not do anything that isn't non-English. And, if I do TYOL, then I could teach summer school and not let them down.
Oh, had my first home instruction session yesterday - the kid was a pain in the neck. Just wanted to talk about fighting and how he ditches school. And I'm like, "Dude, you can't ditch this, I'm sitting at your kitchen table." And honestly, when I just laugh at his whining and protests he was fine. He actually wrote a pretty good narrative, and once I helped him with planning it was pretty hands-off. It's just exhausting doing this one-on-one - more for him than me.
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