Crackdown
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Today was a bad day to be one of my students. There were different reasons why, but it mostly came down to vice principals cracking down.
I don't know what happened, but I think someone/thing put a bug up the V.P.s' butts and told them to get out there and do their jobs.
I arrived in my 4th period class to find one of the V.P.s waiting in my classroom. He said he was going to catch any latecomers (I think that class of mine has a reputation for lates, without me even saying something about it. That class is also full of gang members whom I assume the administrators would love to penalize at any opportunity). I probably should have felt guilty that I'd been allowing my students to arrive late in the first place. Frankly, I was just relieved I got to that class on time.
In the end, the vice principal caught about 10 of my students and scheduled a detention with them after school. He also got into a shouting match with one kid and confiscated his hat. Then I actually had a student arrive so late he came in after the V.P. had left! Of course, I had to send him to the same detention.
If the V.P. cracked down on lates in my 5th period class, he would have caught about 10 more. I told these late students what was going on and that they'd better arrive on time in the future.
I did, however, have a different vice principal visit my 5th period class about 15 minutes later. He came to inform me that one of my students had been suspended for an undetermined length of time (for fighting). For whatever reason, I then had to take 10 minutes out of my class time to talk about it, and find the student some work for "a while". Gee, thanks.
While I left to get something, the V.P. supervised my class. I returned less than a minute later, in time to see him hauling out another student who was just suspended right then and there! I found out after that he told a girl behind him to "shut the f*** up".
Right there in front of the vice principal!
What are kids thinking? That guy wouldn't get away with that even in front of me. I'm probably too lenient about swearing, but I act differently if it's malicious.
I don't know what the deal was with my students today.
To digress, I will admit I've been too lenient lately. I feel like I don't have the time to discipline my class. For one, the amount of time it would take to make sure everyone is behaving the way I'd like would fill an entire period. Secondly, I don't have time because enforcing these rules would mean I'd have to issue detentions after school. Detentions I don't know how I'd supervise as I'm running rehearsals and running between various rooms.
Even in three weeks when I'll have free time once again after school, it would be very difficult to suddenly start disciplining my classes.
"Hey guys, now that there's a month left before the end of the year I'm going to start cracking down on you badasses! I know you've gotten away with it for ages, but I've decided 4 months has been just long enough!"
Think it'll work?
Today was a bad day to be one of my students. There were different reasons why, but it mostly came down to vice principals cracking down.
I don't know what happened, but I think someone/thing put a bug up the V.P.s' butts and told them to get out there and do their jobs.
I arrived in my 4th period class to find one of the V.P.s waiting in my classroom. He said he was going to catch any latecomers (I think that class of mine has a reputation for lates, without me even saying something about it. That class is also full of gang members whom I assume the administrators would love to penalize at any opportunity). I probably should have felt guilty that I'd been allowing my students to arrive late in the first place. Frankly, I was just relieved I got to that class on time.
In the end, the vice principal caught about 10 of my students and scheduled a detention with them after school. He also got into a shouting match with one kid and confiscated his hat. Then I actually had a student arrive so late he came in after the V.P. had left! Of course, I had to send him to the same detention.
If the V.P. cracked down on lates in my 5th period class, he would have caught about 10 more. I told these late students what was going on and that they'd better arrive on time in the future.
I did, however, have a different vice principal visit my 5th period class about 15 minutes later. He came to inform me that one of my students had been suspended for an undetermined length of time (for fighting). For whatever reason, I then had to take 10 minutes out of my class time to talk about it, and find the student some work for "a while". Gee, thanks.
While I left to get something, the V.P. supervised my class. I returned less than a minute later, in time to see him hauling out another student who was just suspended right then and there! I found out after that he told a girl behind him to "shut the f*** up".
Right there in front of the vice principal!
What are kids thinking? That guy wouldn't get away with that even in front of me. I'm probably too lenient about swearing, but I act differently if it's malicious.
I don't know what the deal was with my students today.
To digress, I will admit I've been too lenient lately. I feel like I don't have the time to discipline my class. For one, the amount of time it would take to make sure everyone is behaving the way I'd like would fill an entire period. Secondly, I don't have time because enforcing these rules would mean I'd have to issue detentions after school. Detentions I don't know how I'd supervise as I'm running rehearsals and running between various rooms.
Even in three weeks when I'll have free time once again after school, it would be very difficult to suddenly start disciplining my classes.
"Hey guys, now that there's a month left before the end of the year I'm going to start cracking down on you badasses! I know you've gotten away with it for ages, but I've decided 4 months has been just long enough!"
Think it'll work?
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