I have a few scholar adjustments to announce. First, Yo! is no longer in our classroom. After several discussions with our special education leadership group at our school it was determined that he should move to the emotional disabilities classroom with the fifth and sixth grade scholars. This came about for two reasons, as a fourth grader he was not advancing academically and his primary objective each day was to encourage two of our second graders to act inappropriately. Academically, Yo! has been doing very little and on some days nothing. His behavior in the classroom was disruptive and his disruptive behavior would increase when I was not in the room. His usual targets to encourage inappropriate behavior was MiniJ and NoFouls. There was one incident where he dropped the N-word on NoFouls and all hell broke loose. After enough of his antics a line was drawn in the sand. He crossed over it and now he is gone.
Yo! was only gone for a couple days when our classroom phone rang. I answered it and was told by an overhead person that we would be getting a new scholar and it could be as soon as the next day. Why this overhead person was telling this to an instructional assistant doesn't make much sense so I got Gnu's attention and handed her the phone. As I watched Gnu on the phone her facial expression changed for the worse and that was not good. When she hung up the phone she told me a former scholar that left our room was returning. His name is River. When she told me this I had to bite my tongue as the scholars were in the classroom and what I wanted to say but couldn't say was this, "what the ...... are these people thinking?" So everyone is current, River is a former scholar who, on the one day I was not at school, intentionally tried to stab Gnu with a pair of scissors. He was suspended for five days and while on suspension his parental units moved outside of our school corporation's geographic territory. Now this volatile scholar is returning to our classroom.
Here is an update to our classroom score card.
The Collector - fourth grade
Wide - fourth grade
EM - third grade
MiniJ - second grade
NoFouls - second grade
Uh-Uh-Uh - second grade
River - second grade
Grrr! - first grade
* Although Yo! is not physically in our classroom Gnu is still his teacher of record. That means that Gnu is responsible academically for nine scholars which is a personal high for the classroom where I have a view from the back of the room.
If you recall, a few posts ago I wrote about Gnu setting up a case conference with our corporation overhead person to discuss Yo!'s classroom behavior. Rather than hearing Gnu's story this overhead person flatly rejected, without any reason given, the plan to have this case conference. I mentioned this for a reason and I'll let you draw your own conclusions when I'm finished.
When River was in the classroom Gnu asked him what school he came from. He said he came from School X. Gnu then asked him how many scholars were in his classroom. He responded by saying four plus him. Please recall that Gnu is the teacher of record for nine scholars with eight of them in the classroom. So why would an overhead person transfer a scholar from a classroom with five scholars to a classroom with eight scholars? Remember, the overhead person blew up Gnu's original request to have a case conference regarding Yo! Rather than continuing to work with Yo! and his disruptive behavior a decision was reached at our school to move him. The overhead person was not part of the decision making process but was informed. Within a few days we get River, a scholar who was suspended for five days for trying to stab Gnu with a pair of scissors, from a school with only five students in the classroom.
A few descriptive terms come to mind when I think about what just transpired. I'll share with you two of them, retaliation and revenge. Of course, that is my opinion and not a fact. If you have a different opinion please feel free to share.
I'm out. Thanks for continuing to read my blog.
To my Ukraine readers,
Spasybi za chytannya moho blohu. I used a translation app. Hopefully I didn't just say something offensive. If I did, please accept my apology.
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