Week Six Wrap Up

There is nothing that flies as fast as a week in a school. Here I am, in the end of my sixth week at a school and still surviving. One incident that stood out to me this week was rather eye-opening. While helping a few boys doing their work during the class I had my back turned towards the naughty boys who refuse to take out a single book. Like I have said before, I work with those who want to work. I felt these boys throwing me with pen caps. I was extremely annoyed but realized that all they really want from me is my attention - but not the positive type of attention. These boys are the type who take great pleasure out of seeing a teacher loose their cool. I knew this and was determined not to fall into their trap. It took everything I had not to turn around and do something to them. I calmed myself and continued working. AGAIN.
Another pen cap thrown against my back. Let us bear in mind that these are not accidental tosses. These are deliberate and with ill intent. I don't know what I have ever done to harm them or cause them to want to treat me with such disrespect. I have no idea. The sad thing is, These are the boys that I used to pay lots of attention to because I felt that they were misunderstood cases and I was determined to get through to them on a level that they are not familiar with. It really hurts that they did this to me. AGAIN.

Third time a pen cap hits me. I ignore.

FOURTH time they threw me with a big crumpled up ball of paper against my head. This set me the hell off. The teacher was teaching but at that moment I was so upset I stopped her mid sentence - which is something I never do - to notify her of the boys who have been throwing things at me. They denied it and actually blamed me and told me that I was targeting them and made ME feel bad for blaming them! I have never been exposed to such people! I have never been exposed to such a blatant show of disrespect and dishonor. I had no idea what to do so I told their teacher. The reason this kind of behaviour goes on is because nothing gets done to them and to this day they have not apologized and continue to disrupt the class like it's their job. I told my parents about this and they made sure I told the principal. I went to their grade head, told him with them standing there and still they denied it to my face as if I was stupid. He just gave them a talking to. Still, nothing happens to these boys. Action needs to be taken against them but the school lets things like this slide for some reason I am not even sure of. I don't know what to do but I pray to God that he sends me to a good school one day, with a sound discipline system. These things should not happen in a school environment.

On the up-side, I gave 3 very good lessons for Life Orientation this week which I thoroughly enjoy because of the fact that the grade 11s are so chilled. I really enjoy them. They are so responsive. I chose them for my English Crit lesson coming up this week Wednesday!
This week was the marking of the last 40 days that the matrics will ever be having at school again - they hope! I remember saying goodbye to school, thankful that I never have to spend another day at a school... The irony. The matrics came in their casual clothing and I found myself greeting them as "hello Ma'am" until I caught onto the fact that these were in fact school children and not parents who came to school to see the principal. I swear the kids look older and older every year! The cultural week seems to be in full swing as the ballet girls and I are hard at work on our dance for the evening.

Three More weeks to go - Let the count down begin!