Yesterday

Yesterday was horrendous.

Had to argue with my Principal because he is being VERY behind on ensuring that I get the photocopies I need for my lessons. I am not happy about this damnable situation.

The 7th Grade were moderately behaved, we got through the lesson without any major problems.

6th Grade were horrendous. All talking all the time. It was horrible. Had to yell at them :(. It was very sad.

The 8th Grade wasn't too bad. Started ELA review yesterday and going to continue it all week.

The Menahel seems to be wanting every bit of paperwork, hw, etc to 'cross his desk' because he really did mess up before the school year started, not everything is going smoothly, so what is he doing? He is looking for things he can blame for the problems in the classes when it comes to behavior. I have no issue with admitting when I am wrong or if I am doing something wrong in the class but I cannot stand it when someone won't admit that they could of done better as well. So right now, to make my own life easier, I'm just going back to the 'basics' in the classroom and discontinuing some of my extra work I have done to make it more fun for the kids because I cannot do all the extra work + jump through his hoops.

So no more Yearbook or Creative Writing for now. I'll still be teaching the kids in my classes well, but if I do those two things there is no way I can also try and please my boss....if that is even possible.

Sorry for the very depressing/very downtrodden post

A new week

I so need to recover from today.

The 7th Grade was fine, we did an amazing lesson about the constitution and the 3 branches which we are continuing tomorrow. Gave them a huge amount of
HW though he he. We'll see how that goes tomorrow.

6th Grade was a bit shaky because the usual two were at it again. *sigh*. But got through the lessons that I had planned.

The 8th Grade was just horrible. Only have 5 kids wanting to learn to taught to them. The Menahel came in at the end of the day and was wondering why a kid had been being picked upon and that why isn't there more homework and that discipline needs to be enforced.

*growls*

Okay, for those of you who are not in a classroom, the teacher is not in charge of administration issues. I have tried to deal with these kids inside the classroom with absolutely no success. Despite what people may believe a teacher cannot control a child if they do not wish to learn or know how to behave during a lesson. Especially when I only have them for one hour. It is an administration issue. The Menahel needs to pull them out, yell, scream, have parents come down, suspend, or even finally throw out a couple of them because they have been major issues since almost the beginning of the year. I truly dont see how, if most of the teachers are complaining about certain children, that they are not doing well with their work, that nothing is happening with them.

Of course the school has been having a lot of issues because the Menahel couldn't get himself or the school organized back in June but suddenly tried to get things working one week before school opened.

I'm just really annoyed with today and will be even more annoyed for later because tomorrow have to deal with the same thing with the Menahel since I just know he's going to try and follow up.