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This mess is my classroom. Note the screen on the back shelf. It fell out of the window last April. That is where they put it.
So far things are pretty quiet. The jerky kids showed off; the quiet ones smiled. I gave them an information sheet, and I thought I would share some of the more interesting answers. Some are very insightful.
I hate when a teacher…..
…is mean and doesn’t get to know the student.
…thinks their class is more important than others.
…does not treat each student with individuality and respect.
…tells you that you are wrong but doesn’t tell you how to fix your mistake.
…ignores you.
…judges students by the way they look.
…is boring.
…calls on me when I don’t know the answer.
…is not reasonable or helpful.
Then I asked what I should know about them.
Willing to do whatever is asked of me.
My stepmother will contact you a lot this semester.
I am NOT A MORNING PERSON!
Nothing.
My favorite thing to do is eat and bass fish.
I have asthma, and I guess I have a bad anger problem. I have to see a
therapist at random sometimes.
I am straight, but I am a very big gay rights activist.
I can study for a test for ten minutes and pass…unless it is more than
twenty questions.
I am a wild person.
I am a state champ.
I like tater tots.
I will have some problems with work.
I am really shy and have stage fright.
I am either hyper or sleepy.
I like to draw.
I have acid reflux.
I space out a lot.
okay, i like a couple of your students already.
i particularly like “not a morning person” and “my stepmother will contact you a lot”. I MAY like the kid with the anger problem and the random therapist. I probably like the tater tots kid. I predict major problems with wild person and i think the eating and bass fishing kid is probably as dumb as a bag of hammers.
i loved the hate a teacher who answers- they’re actually very good answers.
AND, most important of all- and store this for future reference- i think that the kid who has the anger problem and the random therapist is going to make the most creative scarlet A this year.
honestly i am really surprised at your classroom. Do they not have storage solutions in schools anymore? That back wall looks like it should have caution tape around it so no one can get hurt by falling stored stuff. I admit that it has been many years since i was in school- but i don’t remember any classroom ever looking quite like that.
Actually,that room looks better than it usually does. lol I had to buy all of the shelving units myself except the wood one that was already there. Cannot throw anything away because they buy us nothing. I got one roll of scotch tape this year. That will be gone in a week.
There is that one metal cabinet, but that is used to house the toiletries I stock for kids in need. Other wise there are no cabinets at all. I guess I should take a picture of my desk now.
I will keep you posted on the A our angry girl makes. she failed the class last year, but she could not remember who her teacher was. She said it was a man, but it ended up to be a woman. lol
Now I feel the need to clean that room up. The kids will not recognize it if I did.
see, that’s what i mean. You should not have to buy shelves. Tape should not be something you have to buy yourself or not have. I mean there is something really wrong with that kind of an educational system.
I do not have children. I don’t really like children much, even though they always seem to want to follow me home. Okay, so i like them kind of but my patience is quite limited. But that’s not the point. The point is that I realize that the kids you are teaching today are going to be the workforce paying INTO social security in a few years so i can survive my old age, right? And that means i want them to have better jobs than gutting chickens. I want them to be affluent so that i can be well provided for. I want them to be educated and socially stable so that the society i get old IN will be stable. So honestly, I tend to see that back wall- and the system that allows it- as NOT a step in the right direction. It isn’t just about investing in their future to provide a good educational system- although that alone would be worth the money-it’s critical to MY future as well.
And God knows i have bought enough lottery tickets to give several teachers the pay raises they deserve AND buy more than a few rolls of tape. What the hell are they doing with the money?
So eventually the screen is going to fall off the top of the pile, land on the kid whose stepmother is going to call you a lot’s head, the school district will get sued, and then teachers are going to get blamed. How come the people running the system cannot figure that out and fix it? Instead of using money for teachers and damn scotch tape they’re going to end up giving it to an annoying stepmother. It’s just wrong, you know?
Teachers are allowed to take $250 as a deduction on income tax. That is a laugh because most of spend more than that. We even buy books if we are short, because they do not buy books (even when they have money) without a purchase order and a six month notice.
Let me explain the lottery.
Before the lottery the state would put X dollars into the budget for schools.
Lottery is approved and the state takes away the X dollars, and fills that void with money the lottery brings in. So there actually is NO difference. The lottery money is not put on top of what is already there. It is substituted.
I am planning on asking a tall kid to take down the screen today, and I will shove it somewhere. I did not put it there, and I cannot reach it.
Oh they gave each of us six dry board markers this year. They each last about a week, so I am glad I hoarded them from last year. Teachers are great hoarders.
I absolutely LOVE some of those answers….they are HYSTERICAL!!