An eventfull day

So where to begin with today's lessons learned? First off, if there is a student "protest" going on you cannot get any teaching done. And speaking of protesting, these kids don't know what they're doing. In my day we knew how to protest. Walking around the halls with signs about the budget and teacher cuts making noise is not protesting. Unless there was news cameras or reporters there it was pretty much pointless, an excuse to act out. I appreciate the sentiment but it's also a good reason by these kids should be taking more political classes or history at the very least so they can learn about how to do this stuff right! At least their signs were mostly spelled right. That would have been awkward. "SAVE R TAECHERS!"

Next, parent teacher conferences. Would have been fine except I had to be at the school from 7:00AM until 9:30PM, minus the time I had to leave to get cleaned up after breaking up a fight. Why you ask? Because my co-operating teacher decided to break up a two on one fight and with his bad shoulder I couldn't just leave him there by himself so I jumped in, ruined a good shirt too. Lesson learned, if they want to fight, they're going to fight, nothing you can do about it. If you restrain them, they will still try to fight and the other one will try to take a couple free shots. Why? Because they are dicks that's why.

The conferences went well though. Met the parents of some students, but many of the parents I wanted to come didn't of course. But that's the way it is, good students drag their parents to speak with their teachers so they can be showered with praise, bad students they don't give a shit either way. At least the bar afterward was fun, probably over did it a bit, but what can you do?

PK

Next Up - Parent Teacher Conferences

So lets see how many of them actually show up. My guess 20 tops. Although it should be interesting being stuck at the school from 7AM until 9:30 PM that night.

With all the work that goes into this job I sometimes wonder why I doing it at all. What with the weekends spent lesson planning, nights grading, early mornings teaching, students not doing their work, security not coming when you need them. Then I remember its for the job that's not available anywhere in the district.

At least I'm almost done with next week's lesson plans already. Now time to get something to drink.

Also why is it only the kids that are already getting A's that come to you worried about their grades? I mean seriously, was I that annoying? I suppose the answer is yes.

~PK

Haters

Today I learned that you can learn a lot about a school's student population from the t-shirts they where. For example there seems to be 5 types of students at my school:

Haters
Those who are loved by haters.
Those who are hated by haters.
Those who love haters.
Those who hate haters.

I also learned that union meetings make me feel like I finally found the front to a war that I've been looking for for a long time. I have also now enabled people who are not members of the site to post comments in case anyone out there is actually reading this.

~PK