It's Wednesday morning and the room is quiet. MiniJ was suspended on Tuesday for putting a major hit on NoFouls chest so he is out. Hopefully with one of the two major combatants missing the day will be peaceful.
During my first year as a paid employee the school received its first letter grade from the state of Indiana. I remember the looks on the faces of the teachers when it was announced that our school is an F school. While my time at this school as a paid employee was limited when this letter grade came out, I did spend a lot of time the previous year as a volunteer. As a volunteer I worked with teachers from the third through the sixth grade and I met some truly great teachers. I can say this in no uncertain terms, this is not an F school. Now I'm going to tell you what I think of the letter grading system used by the state of Indiana. Caution as I will be very blunt. This letter grade system is a bunch of bull shit made up by politicians who are only concerned about getting re-elected and pointy headed intellectuals who are so full of self importance they lost touch with reality. With that said I now feel better.
We were informed of our most recent letter grade a few weeks ago. I'm happy to report we are now a B school. I'm even happier to report that our improvement has caught the eye of one of the local television stations and they will be in the school today to interview the Big B and visit some classrooms. In case you haven't figured it out, this is a huge day for our school as we will be on television.
9:34am - Yo!, in his best defiant behavior is disrupting the classroom and not following instructions. He decides to walk out of the room and slams the door as he exits.
1:45pm - Yo! again leaves the room. He avoids adults who were trying to redirect him back to the classroom for several minutes. He is eventually trapped in a corner of the gym. A quick thanks to Duck for helping me out. He is taken to the Big B's office for a conversation and returns to the classroom at 2:00pm.
The local television station is now in the building and are interviewing the Big B. They are on the second floor.
2:30pm - Yo! and NoFouls leave the room and go sprinting down the hallway, turn the corner and head up to the second floor. I'm following them. When I reach the second floor they are already halfway down the hallway but run into an obstacle called Big B. They reverse direction and head back toward me. I choose not to stop them on the second floor so they sprint past me and head back to the classroom. Then enter the classroom and promptly disrupt IvyL's group session. She is highly animated and ejects them from the classroom. They are escorted to an empty classroom next to ours by Oreo. Both were launching chairs across the room as I walked into the room. With two angry scholars in the room with only two adults the numbers are not right so I call for assistance. The chair launching continues for a short time with me in the room but stops. Oreo then separates them to opposite sides of the room and goes into her animated conversation and then calls the parental units for both scholars. The adult help I requested arrives and it's the Big B. She is not a happy camper. One day suspension for Yo! and a one day suspension for NoFouls plus their parental units are at home awaiting their arrival.
It's now Thursday. Yo! and No Fouls are out but MiniJ has returned.
10:50 - MiniJ blurts out for no apparent reason and at no one in particular "I hate you" and then says "your mama."
10:55am - Wide is on overload. He leaves the room heading toward the cafeteria but sees a teacher and returns to the classroom. He is climbing up on the top of desks and chairs and finally stops moving when he is standing on his desk. Oreo is in the room and with a concern for his safety moves toward him to get him off the desk. As she nears him he kicks at her and just misses her chest and face. He is now on Gnu's front table. As I approach he threatens to hit me in the face with a book. Oreo is behind him and distracts him just long enough for me to get control of him. He is then placed in our timeout room to settle down.
1:08pm - It's right after lunch and recess and Wide is very active again and is disrupting the class.
1:09pm - MiniJ uses inappropriate language. He told another student to shut up N-word.
1:19pm - Wide is on the run again. He tries to hide in our parent lounge but I find him and he heads back to the classroom. Now back in the classroom he decides to throw some paper airplanes around.
2:10pm - Wide is again agitated and starts throwing Expo markers in the direction of MiniJ.
2:15pm - EM is irritated with all the noise and commotion and heads for the door. He stops, picks up a plastic file folder holder and tosses it on the floor and leaves the room.
2:17pm - MiniJ decides he also needs the plastic file folder holder and picks it up and promptly slams it on the floor and it breaks apart.
I'm now looking for EM. I find him and return to the room but Wide and MiniJ are out of the room. EM has settled down and he helps me reassemble the plastic file folder holder. As we are doing this Oreo walks in and said I'm needed next door where Wide and MiniJ are located. I'm greeted at the door by Gnu and she says to me that MiniJ hit Wide so hard he knocked him off of his feet. I move MiniJ back to the classroom and he goes and sits at his desk. Because of what happened to Wide his parental unit had to be contacted. Because a parental unit was called about a potential injury to their child the Big B also needed to be informed. MiniJ is suspended again for a day.
That makes four suspensions in three days. Sadly, an all time high.
You'll love this. We were informed that a new student will arrived on Monday morning. The new student is Grr! and he is in the first grade. We have seven scholars with emotional disabilities in the room right now. Guess why Grr! is joining us. Right, he is labeled as emotionally disabled and can't control his anger.
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