Friday is almost always a good day. Mario was out today, or came in so late I didn't see him. Billy was in the school but was just wandering the halls instead of going to class. I caught him hiding in the back of my room at one point. The principal was walking around with Billy's new suspension notice in his hand. I asked him where he was being suspended to.
"I don't know," Principal said. "Siberia? Who cares, he'll be gone."
I was busy again today, mostly due to a third period coverage. A coverage, for those of you who don't know (god bless your hearts, ignorance is bliss), is what I get because I work in a school where teachers take lots of sick ("mental health") days and which doesn't have any substitute teachers to call on. The present teachers cover for the absent ones. I hate coverages. Normally, I use every minute of my prep periods to mark papers, write tests, create schedules, etc. That is one way that I don't bring my work home, and I don't end up marking papers every night cursing my career choice and emailing my resume to everyone on my "Contacts" List. Coverages throw my already tight schedule into chaos. For me, it's not worth 36.50 to be a sub for forty five minutes.
That said it wasn't the worst coverage I ever had (that would be the one where the girl dared a boy to cut her hair and when he did she threw a chair at him which missed me by, oh, imagine pinching a flea between your thumb and forefinger, yeah, that much), it was fine. They were mostly kids whom I taught last year, back when they were snot nosed sixth graders. Now they are seventh graders, still filled with snot, but a little more savvy than last year. But still, middle schoolers being middle schoolers, they argue, they fight, they raise their voices. Many times I had to remind the class my simple life rule: "IF IT ANNOYS YOU DON'T DO IT."
Kids have a hard time following this one. They say, "Teacher, he annoying me, do somethin!" Or, "Hey stop looking at me! You ugly!"
"If he annoys you, don't talk to him," I say. Sometimes I extend it into the four part mantra that my kids have now memorized: 1. Don't talk to him, 2. Don't look at him, 3. Don't point at him, 4. Don't talk about him.
Some of these seventh graders still don't have it figured out.
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