Well, it was one of those days.
I worked and had my math review classes.
I had a 6th grade boy who had a bad attitude with a capital A.
He came in and announced that they had assigned seats. I knew better; I told him to sit in the back row away from his fellow partner in crime. I guess that started him off.
I handed out work and when he got it, he proceeded to rip it down from the top. Uh, ok, I thought, that two can play this game. I know that he has no desire to learn or pay attention in class. After he started giving me a hard time, verbally, I did something for the first time.
I called the disciplinarian.
He spent the class with him.
My fellow substitutes who also teach math review applauded my action, as many of them have been put in the position and called the disciplinarian also on this student.They had gone past the room, saw what had transpired, and later saw the boy in with the disciplinarian AND the Principal. I really don’t know why some teachers, who I have sat in their class and watched this student, TAKE the disrespect that this boy spews and don’t take up some action. I can see how he is going to go through school and the bare-bones education that might actually stay in this head.
After he had left for the disciplinarian, and later, the principal, a girl in the class informed me that ” He never liked you.”
“Good,” I said to her” because I am here to teach and help, not to be liked.
thereisnosanityclause 