I'm kind of irritated with Kira today because she keeps doing an annoying voice that for some reason gets under my skin like I just stepped on a mound of fire ants and then my legs turned into the legs I have in my dreams when I can't run anywhere because my legs weigh 400 pounds each. I should have known better than to let HER know that the voice bugs me so much, but it bugs me so much that I couldn't help myself but to say (scream), "STOP DOING THAT!!!!" Which for Kira (or anyone between the ages of 11 and 15) means OMG KEEP DOING THAT!
Also, I took the time to clean, fill and remember to bring my special water bottle to school today. I had it in my bag and hauled it up to the fourth floor and just as I was unlocking my classroom door, she grabbed the bottle out of my bag, said, "My throat hurts, I'm getting a cold," and then took a long, sloppy swig off my pristine water bottle that I prepared especially for myself. Now I can't drink it. I wanted to push her down the steps.
However, I don't need to resort to child abuse because we spend every day in the same place, and by merely being the woman who birthed her and who takes care of all her needs, I am a total embarrassment. As a teacher at her school I can simply go on the computer and get her schedule and see where she is every minute of the day, and now I am contemplating going into her 1st period class and pretending I'm having a stroke by limping and drooling and possibly peeing my pants and begging her to help me. But you know what? She wouldn't help me (and that would piss me off), and if I did that she'd keep doing the voice forever and ever, and I'd be stuck in pee-pants for the rest of the day. There is no winning with a middle school kid. They can't lose a contest of annoyingness.
Also, there are only ten days left until the end of the school year and I may be just a tish touchy because every kid I come across is upping their own personal annoying factor exponentially each day and it's pushing me over the edge.
Before my classes every day I prop my door open because I LIKE IT LIKE THAT and every single day the same kid comes in and pulls it shut behind him. Every day I make him go open it up again. It drives me fucking crazy.
The kids in this school are all issued new beautiful free planners on the first day of every quarter. They are to keep this planner with them to write down important information for classes, for parent correspondence, and to use as a hall pass during class. I made it abundantly clear the first few days of school that if they don't have their planner, they weren't leaving my room. I have one girl who asks me EVERY SINGLE DAY to go to her locker/go to the bathroom/get a drink/talk to a teacher/etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc, and EVERY SINGLE DAY I say, "Do you have your planner?" and EVERY SINGLE DAY she gets huffy and says, "NO! GOD!" and then sits down and pouts. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
Don't believe me that they are increasing their annoyance-level? Yesterday the journal question was "What do you think is/will be/was the best age to be? Explain." And I came across these gems when I was correcting them:
And:
They don't even want to use a toilet. In light of that, I'm pretty impressed that I can get them to do schoolwork.
I've been trying to get my students to FOCUS these last few days of school and you know what? It is really really hard. They are starting puberty and have spring fever and their brains are shutting down for the big sleep until they are in their early 20s. The only super active parts of their brains are the parts that turn everyday items/phrases into inappropriate and not-very-clever sexual innuendos. That part is spot on. One day someone noticed that it was 69 degrees in the room. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Hilarious. One of my little angels learned the phrase "friends with benefits" and thinks that she made it up and nobody over the age of 13 knows what it means so every time the word "friends" is said, she says, "with benefits!" and everyone laughs and thinks I'm not laughing because I don't get it. I GET IT. If it was even remotely clever, I'd give them my kudos, but it's just annoying.
I remember the good old days when kids were sweet and not annoying. Right before Kira started middle school she was shopping at a t-shirt shop with her grandma. Grandma said she'd buy Kira any shirt she wanted. Kira chose one with a cute bird on it, but Grandma refused to get it because it said, "I froze my pecker off in Minnesota." Kira didn't know that pecker was a euphemism for penis, she just thought he had a really cold beak and that was the joke. Grandma had to explain it. After Kira knew what it meant, she didn't think it was all that funny. She thought a bird freezing its beak off was funnier. She just wanted a shirt with that bird on it. The good old days.
Also, I took the time to clean, fill and remember to bring my special water bottle to school today. I had it in my bag and hauled it up to the fourth floor and just as I was unlocking my classroom door, she grabbed the bottle out of my bag, said, "My throat hurts, I'm getting a cold," and then took a long, sloppy swig off my pristine water bottle that I prepared especially for myself. Now I can't drink it. I wanted to push her down the steps.
However, I don't need to resort to child abuse because we spend every day in the same place, and by merely being the woman who birthed her and who takes care of all her needs, I am a total embarrassment. As a teacher at her school I can simply go on the computer and get her schedule and see where she is every minute of the day, and now I am contemplating going into her 1st period class and pretending I'm having a stroke by limping and drooling and possibly peeing my pants and begging her to help me. But you know what? She wouldn't help me (and that would piss me off), and if I did that she'd keep doing the voice forever and ever, and I'd be stuck in pee-pants for the rest of the day. There is no winning with a middle school kid. They can't lose a contest of annoyingness.
Also, there are only ten days left until the end of the school year and I may be just a tish touchy because every kid I come across is upping their own personal annoying factor exponentially each day and it's pushing me over the edge.
Before my classes every day I prop my door open because I LIKE IT LIKE THAT and every single day the same kid comes in and pulls it shut behind him. Every day I make him go open it up again. It drives me fucking crazy.
The kids in this school are all issued new beautiful free planners on the first day of every quarter. They are to keep this planner with them to write down important information for classes, for parent correspondence, and to use as a hall pass during class. I made it abundantly clear the first few days of school that if they don't have their planner, they weren't leaving my room. I have one girl who asks me EVERY SINGLE DAY to go to her locker/go to the bathroom/get a drink/talk to a teacher/etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc, and EVERY SINGLE DAY I say, "Do you have your planner?" and EVERY SINGLE DAY she gets huffy and says, "NO! GOD!" and then sits down and pouts. EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
Don't believe me that they are increasing their annoyance-level? Yesterday the journal question was "What do you think is/will be/was the best age to be? Explain." And I came across these gems when I was correcting them:
"I think the best age is when you are a baby because at that age you don't have to go on the toilet. You can go in you (sic) diaper."
And:
"I think that the best age would be a baby so I didn't have to go on the toilet."
I've been trying to get my students to FOCUS these last few days of school and you know what? It is really really hard. They are starting puberty and have spring fever and their brains are shutting down for the big sleep until they are in their early 20s. The only super active parts of their brains are the parts that turn everyday items/phrases into inappropriate and not-very-clever sexual innuendos. That part is spot on. One day someone noticed that it was 69 degrees in the room. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Hilarious. One of my little angels learned the phrase "friends with benefits" and thinks that she made it up and nobody over the age of 13 knows what it means so every time the word "friends" is said, she says, "with benefits!" and everyone laughs and thinks I'm not laughing because I don't get it. I GET IT. If it was even remotely clever, I'd give them my kudos, but it's just annoying.
I remember the good old days when kids were sweet and not annoying. Right before Kira started middle school she was shopping at a t-shirt shop with her grandma. Grandma said she'd buy Kira any shirt she wanted. Kira chose one with a cute bird on it, but Grandma refused to get it because it said, "I froze my pecker off in Minnesota." Kira didn't know that pecker was a euphemism for penis, she just thought he had a really cold beak and that was the joke. Grandma had to explain it. After Kira knew what it meant, she didn't think it was all that funny. She thought a bird freezing its beak off was funnier. She just wanted a shirt with that bird on it. The good old days.
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| Never mind about my pecker. |
Just 10 more days.....you'll make it!
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