I expect my last sixteen days of teaching in middle school to be peaceful and full of learning. Why? Because 20 minutes before the end of school yesterday one of our fearless leaders came on the intercom, interrupted a student giving an oral report and trying to explain the dialogues of Socrates to other sixth graders, and told us that she was drawing another line in the sand and they had better not cross it.
Okay, she didn’t put it that way. What she said was that some of them have been here three years and they know the rules and expectations. From this point on there will be no tolerance. If they did not behave, all end-of-the-year activities would be cancelled. I am not sure what happened to bring this red line but I expect the results will be similar to what happened with Obama in Syria.
Or the kids could suddenly become well behaved and seekers of wisdom.
I will get back to you on that.
homo unius libri
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Are you waiting with bated breath?
ReplyDeleteOnly for retirement.
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Are some kids breaking into the vending machine again?
ReplyDeleteSince I don't have one in my room I can't be sure. The iron cage around it by the gym probably doesn't do much though.
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