Waffles Radio

You know how I got to start this day?  In homeroom, or whatever the equivalent is, one of the kids told another student that he was going to shoot her.   And we’re close to downtown, where the previous week someone really had been shot.  I swear, that had to be one of the dumbest things that kid could have said.

I’m not going to play around and think that someone is joking with that kind of thing.  Especially downtown.  He went to the principal’s office and when that class came back they were talking about this kid being suspended.  Serves him right for being a little dumbass like that.

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful.  Except for the one kid who thought that he could do whatever he wanted as long as he was super polite when he talked to me.  Those kids are the worst.  Being polite does not get your out of doing work or being quiet when I ask you to be quiet.  Being super polite all the time just looks fake and annoys me to know no end.

Really, what can you do with kids like that?  I can’t write them up because they’re being polite.  I’m not going to hope that the office will see things my way, especially at a school I haven’t been to before.  The most I can do is make them sit by themselves.  Of course he argued about that, because he wasn’t allowed to sit where I told him to sit.

It was an empty desk with no one around it.

Because of today, when I’m in middle or high schools from now on I’m going to have the referrals out where I can grab them in less than 2 seconds.

I was one step away from having this day be a disaster.  The plans that the teacher had out were from a few days ago.  So I was about to have middle schoolers with nothing to tell them to do.  Luckily it was band.

For every class I told them to get into groups and make something to play for the class.  The 6th graders followed directions best.  They either made up something new or made variations on things they were learning.

The 8th graders just wanted to play things they needed to practice for a concert.  With one of the classes I let them get into their own groups and play.  With the other we played as a group.

The 7th graders had basically the same thing, they just played things out of the book instead.

I also went and covered the orchestra class for 1 period.  I told them they stunk.  They told me thank you and that they knew they stunk, but the other subs usually told them they did well.

Overall, I did the best I could with this one.  I don’t play band instruments at all.  I barely play orchestra instruments.  Considering all of that, I think I did a good job just getting them to play something and not sit around.