Ms. Bitch
Workday - 8:15am-5:15pm
I was a real hardass today! I gave two detentions.
I noticed on the attendance printout that two students had skipped my period 3 class yesterday, so I was prepared to hold them back at lunch for a half hour. Then one of them was away again! Both kids had skipped at least once before, but I let it slide then (I don't really know why). The one girl who fulfilled her lunchtime detention wasn't the least bit sour about it, either. In fact, she spent the 30 minutes chatting to me about math, telling me how much she loves it and that she goes to a math school outside of here, etc., etc. Maybe that's not how I should be giving detentions. I'm probably supposed to give them a stern look and make them do homework silently. Instead we just had half-hour gabfest.
In 5th period, two guys showed up 10 minutes late (each with a can of pop in hand. The cafeteria is on the complete opposite side of the school from my math classroom, so I can see how that would make them 10 minutes late). I figured I was on a roll with my one detention, so I kept those two after school for ten minutes to make up the time they missed. Again, they were polite about it and pleasantly said goodbye to me when I dismissed them.
What a difference between here and my last school. I think these kids are just worried I might call their parents (these kids being the last in a dying breed of children who still fear their parents). Plus they're only in grade 9, and not ready to take these risks so early in their high school careers.
Perhaps today was the day for being a hardass. A coworker told me he had confiscated something from one of his students, himself. He handed me this paper with a list of phrases in Cantonese (that translated into very rude insults). I made sure to study it well.
Good thing for it, too. In a multicultural society like ours it's important to be able to tell students "your penis is very small" in a variety of languages.
I was a real hardass today! I gave two detentions.
I noticed on the attendance printout that two students had skipped my period 3 class yesterday, so I was prepared to hold them back at lunch for a half hour. Then one of them was away again! Both kids had skipped at least once before, but I let it slide then (I don't really know why). The one girl who fulfilled her lunchtime detention wasn't the least bit sour about it, either. In fact, she spent the 30 minutes chatting to me about math, telling me how much she loves it and that she goes to a math school outside of here, etc., etc. Maybe that's not how I should be giving detentions. I'm probably supposed to give them a stern look and make them do homework silently. Instead we just had half-hour gabfest.
In 5th period, two guys showed up 10 minutes late (each with a can of pop in hand. The cafeteria is on the complete opposite side of the school from my math classroom, so I can see how that would make them 10 minutes late). I figured I was on a roll with my one detention, so I kept those two after school for ten minutes to make up the time they missed. Again, they were polite about it and pleasantly said goodbye to me when I dismissed them.
What a difference between here and my last school. I think these kids are just worried I might call their parents (these kids being the last in a dying breed of children who still fear their parents). Plus they're only in grade 9, and not ready to take these risks so early in their high school careers.
Perhaps today was the day for being a hardass. A coworker told me he had confiscated something from one of his students, himself. He handed me this paper with a list of phrases in Cantonese (that translated into very rude insults). I made sure to study it well.
Good thing for it, too. In a multicultural society like ours it's important to be able to tell students "your penis is very small" in a variety of languages.
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