The First Referral
I had to write a guy up Thursday. It took a week and a half of teaching. That's probably not a good thing. I found myself wondering what I'd done wrong as far as classroom control goes? He and I had a discussion earlier in the class period about his grade (which is not good to say the least, although I haven't actually calculated it yet). In hindsight, I probably should have drawn the line and said I wasn't discussing it. Frankly, I don't know what else he was expecting from his performance. What gets me is that he didn't even try. Last week he told me that he didn't really want to be in my class in the first place, something about not wanting to be an actor. I told him that I wasn't expecting amazing performances, and all he had to do in my class to pass it was try. Just try, that's all I want. He said he wasn't smart enough to memorize his lines. I told him he' s selling himself short, and that he has potential to do whatever he wants.
On Thursday he walked out of my class without permission. What else was I supposed to do?
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In other news, I've blown my monthly quota out of the water. I'm pretty excited about that. Maybe my annual average will be 6 posts a month. It's just a product of actually having something to write about for the first time in a long time. Good times.
2 comments:
Yay for blowing your quota out of the water. . . gives me something to do while I'm supposed to be studying. . . and fixing my toilet so I can pee. . . but you didn't need to know that.
AV
Nope, didn't need to know that, but it's all good. Glad to give you something to do other than fix your plumbing.
Yeah, I do have other people in the performing arts department who I will be working with for the Spring musical, but until we get to that, well, it's all me.
Have you heard "Urinetown"? It's funny. I dig it.
As for looking into the mind of a teacher, well, I don't think they all think like that...at least I hope not. It makes you wonder what our teachers thought of us when we were in high school. Maybe something along the same lines. Or maybe not.
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