The Theme Was Fightin'

So, sometimes ( a lot of the time) kids get sent to me to "cool down" from some situation. (I'll go out on a limb and say 90% have anger management problems)

Well, Kiana was standing outside my room telling me what had happened for her to be sent out of math.
"Well, she said 'blahblah' and I said, "blahblah..."
I wasn't following. "Kiana, set up the story before you tell it."

"Okay, okay, the characters were me, Janae, the girl Brittany and my sister. The setting was math class. It was a rainy day and I had on a blue shirt..."

My Bad!

Okay, so my kids were doing math worksheets. I told them if they finished them quickly, we could play a game (that they love): Silent Speed Ball. Some of the girls asked me if they could color some Valentine's cards. I told them that was fine, as long as they finished their work.

When it was time to play/draw, I said this, "Okay! Okay! Speed Ball people stand up! color people sit down!"

Ronquelda says, "Aren't we all color people?"

THE PEOPLE WITH THE CRAYONS! MY BAD!

Dial Tone

Today we were going over the answers to a math worksheet. As I was reading, I would enunciate each answer and speak very clearly. "The answer is....five TWENTY FIFTHS."

After I finished, Ke'Yarn said from the back, "If you would like to make a call, please hang up and dial again."

Nonsense (cont'd)

Alright, so the science teacher finally showed up.

I spent most of today wandering the hallways and taking kids to the classes they were skipping.

I ended up having to keep like 5 kids in my room after they'd gotten in trouble and had nowhere to go. They were doing an art project for me and were just sitting there quietly.

So one of the vice-principals decided that I should be in charge of a small self-contained class of all the nutsos. I'll just keep them all day and teach them things they aren't learning in their real class. Well, okay, that is partially awesome. EXCEPT, if they think I can do that alone, they are severely overestimating my abilities. Just because I can get them to sit down and do art doesn't mean I can teach them how to read. And why would I be left with the worst of the worst with no help whatsoever? And ALL DAY LONG? Wow. Just wow.

We're On The Magic School Bus

So, like I said, we watched Magic School Bus today. It was good times. They make noises when I say cartoon, because they're "too old" for that. But then everyone stares intently at the screen and they laugh at the 2nd grade jokes. I love it.

We watched the one where they go inside Ralphie to find out why he's sick.

"Miss Vinson, look at that blood...its really gross."
"They are on a tiny bus inside a person, its going to be gross."

We watched the one where Arnold's annoying cousin Janet comes and they go into space.

"Miss Vinson, I do NOT like Janet. She is RUDE."
"Just watch the video."
"Ugh. Janet is a B."
"Shut Up Janet! GAH!"
"Janet need to stop."
"Miss Vinson, why Janet so ANNOYING?!"


"WATCH THE VIDEO."

Day One of Not Teaching...

....I taught.

"Miss Vinson, the science teacher called in sick. Can you just keep them one more day?"

Oh, sure, not a problem. Glad I have a plan of things to do when they know any work I give them means nothing because the grading quarter is over.

We watched Magic School Bus. It's science.

Updates

• We got our schedule today for the new semester (which, btw, started last monday.) Yeah, MY NAME IS NOT ON IT AT ALL. I mean, am I fired? According to people that know nothing, I'm going to be a hall monitor (the kids do things like, listen when I talk and not cuss me out...something our administrators haven't really gotten ahold of) so that we can cut down the 20-30 kids that do nothing but run the hallways. If that's true...YAY. If its not...i'm totally scared.
• Tavon and Trevon are like my kids. They're boys without direction that need somebody to tell them to stand up straight and speak properly. (That somebody tends to be me.) Well, they slashed another teacher's tires and got suspended long-term (45 days.) I think that means we've lost them. for good. I'm so depressed I can barely breathe.
• Joe's been gone for awhile. He moved to another school after getting suspended AGAIN. I miss him.

Ugh. Bad Week.

Angry Post Explanation

My kids are the "advanced" kids. Our administrator reads the advanced curriculum like the kids have to have all of these electives: Gym, Art, Drama, Music, Band, Technology and Spanish. She says they have to have Spanish and Technology all year long.

Well, I'm not a genius, but since we only have 6 periods a day and they also have 4 core classes (math, english, social studies and science.) I'm pretty sure that's impossible.

So, anyway. At the beginning of the year, my kids were the only group that didn't have science. Since they have these 80 million electives, they just didn't schedule them science. Well, as of 2 weeks ago, somebody finally listened to me when I've been saying it since August. (See, before this year, Social Studies/Science were semester only classes)

They tell me, "okay, well, since its the new semester, you're kids will be going to science now." But since every other class has both science AND social studies at the same time, there are no kids for me to teach.

Principal wants me to teach Math because I'm certified in it. Okay, not a miracle worker. If they haven't learned it in the last 6 months, I can't teach it all to them in the 6 weeks before the Standardized tests.

She also thinks I should teach Technology. Why? Oh, because I'm 35 years younger than her and I can turn on/off a laptop and do the ctrl+alt+del thing. Not because I have the first clue about technology.
Or I might just become their science teacher.

This probably doesn't make sense. Because I don't get it either.

Angry Post

Sooooo...yeah.
I come into work this morning..."hey, miss v, tomorrow is your last day teaching Social Studies. I don't know what you're teaching now."

oh, okay, thanks. 'ppreciate it.

forget it. it's not even going to be an angry post. I can't even type out the stupidity behind this new decision. Maybe tomorrow.

I Just Don't Get It.

I found out yesterday that there is a doorway somewhere on the third floor that leads up to the roof. Apparently, they found two girls and a boy up there in, let's say, compromising positions.

I really don't understand these girls.
1. It's FREEZING outside, literally freezing.
2. The most unhygienic group of people just has to be middle school boys. They don't even know they smell! Why would you take the least clean person and put his (most likely) dirtiest appendage in your mouth?!! So disgusting.