You know, there really wasn't anything spectacular about this morning, but there wasn't anything CRAPtacular about it either. It just was. And that's just kind of the way I expected the whole day to be. Not so much.
I had only been at the school for 10 minutes this morning when I received a visit from a mom and a student. And 8th grade boy whom I had sent to the office on Monday. Apparently Monday was his birthday too. Oh well. Just because it's your birthday doesn't mean you get to be a buttface in my class. And it's not like it's the first time he's been that way. This is the 3rd time he's visited the office. Anyway, he and his mother needed to talk to me because he wants to run for SBO. But he can't do that if he has even one U(Unsatisfactory citizenship...Unsatisfactory is an understatement for some of these kids I've been dealing with). So they wanted to make sure he wasn't going to be getting a U.
Um maybe you should have thought of the consequences for your actions. Because you are SO getting a U. Several of the other kids are too. I explained that according to school citizenship policy, it's an automatic U for being disrespectful to a Substitute. "Well, Mr Muna(the assistant Principal) said it wasn't necessarily automatic." Did he? Well that's just swell. But guess what? Your little darling has more than earned his Unsatisfactory citizenship in my class. All this time, I'm thinking, I really should have an administrator with me. This mother is going to try to strong-arm me into letting her kid off the hook. Of course, she has no idea who she's dealing with. I'm not a push over. Especially not when it comes to stuff like this. It's probably because I was a little bit of a nerd growing up and I got sick of seeing the rules bent for certain people(never me). I tell her that I'll email Mrs. Young and talk to her about what she wants to do because I don't know what the policy is for working off Us or anything like that(I never had a U, how would I know how it all works?). And then she says, "Oh and he's a little confused about Monday." The kid proceeds to tell me he doesn't know why he was sent to the office.
SERIOUSLY? Because you came in after class to apologize(yeah it was heart-felt whatever) and I explained to you then why you were sent. But I'll do it again. You were dancing around and generally disrupting the class while I was trying to teach. You were mocking the techniques we were learning. "I wasn't. I was just doing what I supposed to." Um. No. You weren't. "How could you see me? You weren't even looking in my direction." Funny thing kid. I know you. There's a reason you sit on the front row. And I have peripheral vision. I saw. And you were turned around facing the back of the room. And that's kind of a problem. You see, I'm the teacher and you should be looking at me. Would you like me to continue? No? Yeah it's not like your mom really believes me over her little angel anyway. Thanks for coming in and being confrontational. Oh yes. Of course you should apologize to me. But don't look me in the eye and definitely mumble it as though you think you have nothing to apologize for. Yes mom that was entirely acceptable.
I emailed the regular teacher and let her know what was up. And I went and talked with the Assistant Principal so that he knew what my plan was. We're all on the same page. I'm sure I'm going to get more visits from that mom. Her kid is getting a U. And there are several other parents I'm sure I'll get to see in the next few days too. Apparently I have to send out a warning email. "Dear Parent of deliquent child.... Stop enabling your student. He thinks he rules the world. He thinks he can treat anyone however he wants. He thinks there are no consequences. Guess what? CONSEQUENCE! You want to argue with me? Bring it on. P.S. They don't pay me enough to deal with your disrespectful child AND his whiney mother."
After I finished with all that drama, I got to drive to Magna and do 4 hours of Region Solo and Ensemble just to play for 5 students. Awesome. I had a very witty blog about my time at S/E, but Magna is a BLACK HOLE and my phone app said it posted it...but didn't. And now it's lost forever. It was a good one too.
I need some serious fun this weekend. Who's up for the task?
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