It's now Friday in what may have been the worse week I've had in three years sitting with my view from the back of the room. I wasn't going to mention Friday's activities but I figured what the heck I'll share with everyone how my week ended.
1:10pm - Yo! is upset because he has to do a reading assignment. He walked into the time out room and is aggressively pounding on the window with his fists. So you know it is a wire meshed glass window that may crack but it will not break. Seeing that he is being completely ignored he walks out of the room but runs into Oreo who takes him to her office.
1:43pm - We are starting a writing/proofreading assignment and Yo! has a worksheet to complete. He is assigned to work with me. His first task is to proof read and make the two corrections to a nine word sentence. Here are the two corrections he needed to make. The first word in the sentence is "did". It is spelled with a lower case "d". At the end of the sentence there is no period. He needs to rewrite the sentence so there are no mistakes. Yo! says to me I need help writing the word "did". I say no. He starts slapping himself in the face saying this is to hard and I need help. As a reminder he is in the fourth grade. I say to him I will not help you. Do your own work. He then gets up and walks away from my table whining it is to hard.
1:55pm - Yo! is still in his work avoidance mode. He now informs me that the sentence is too long for the paper. I reply, use the next line to finish the sentence. He again says this is too hard. His next comment is I hate this school. All of this because he has to rewrite a sentence with nine words in it.
2:00pm - He still has not rewritten a nine word sentence. All I get from him is whining, moaning, and groaning. He is basically doing nothing.
2:03pm - He walks to his desk and picks up his backpack and said he is leaving. Good, I have the perfect destination for him, the in-school suspension room and that is where he stayed for the remainder of the day.
For twenty minutes Yo! could not rewrite a nine word sentence. Nine stinking words and you know what really irks me, he has to pass a statewide language arts test in the spring. What are the chances of his passing this test? Well, if he can't rewrite a nine word sentence over a twenty minute period of time I'd say NONE. And do you know what is scary about the word NONE? Teachers are evaluated based on the pass/fail rate of their students on this statewide test. Principals are evaluated on the student bodies ability to pass this statewide test. Our schools letter grade can drop if the fail rate is to high. Even scarier, teachers can loose their job because a young scholar gets an attitude and refuses to work.
An after the students left the classroom for the day meeting took place recently in my classroom. In attendance was Oreo and Gnu and I got to listen. The topic of conversation was Yo!'s parental unit. Apparently this parental unit is considering have Yo! placed back into the general education population. If this happens then Yo! would have to change schools. I've already started to say my Our Fathers and Hail Marys.
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