Today I hate my job

[Veronica]

I don't have the patience to deal with the outright stupidity, lack of focus, need for attention, inability to listen, poor social skills, immaturity, apathy to learning, and sub par reading comprehension that is rampant in my classroom. There are dumb questions. The ones that get asked about the very thing I just talked about, two minutes ago and ended with, "Are there any questions?"

I so want a pint of Ben and Jerry's right now, followed by a bag of Hershey's Symphony toffee chip flavor and maybe 3 or 4 Red Bulls or maybe an orange soda.

Veronica

[indysteel]

((((Veronica)))). I'm sorry your class stinks this year.

[Bike Writer]

Oh Boy, sorry to hear about a rough day/week/class. Thankfully, it's finally Friday.

[Crankin]

Your class sounds dreadful. I empathize, really.
You can avoid the junk food! Or at least, most of it.
I am seeing one of my clients in his kindergarten class. It feels nice to be in a nice school, but man, talk about hard work. The kids are learning about brain based learning and learning styles, along with their letters.

[Veronica]

I feel so badly for the kids who really want to learn and are ready to be 4th graders. You can see them practically rolling their eyes at the others. I need to figure out how to teach half my kids to think. Learning to read directions would be a good start.

I avoided all the junk food, still crave it. I had a Chobani 0 rapsberry flavor when I got home.

Veronica

[jobob]

Hoo boy. You have my sympathies. Hang in there! and Happy Friday.

[Bike Writer]

I've taught Sunday School for 7 years, I know it's not like being a real teacher because it's only once a week and only for an hour, not all day, but I do empathize with having kids who disrupt and are difficult. I love teaching Sunday School, two years ago I had a class that nearly made me quit. It was the largest class I'd had and I had 3 very disruptive kids who had a variety of issues from having no attention span, poor manners, no focus and relished chaos and disruption for the sake of attention. I felt really bad for the kids who were there to learn and I know that they were disgusted and fed up with the hooligans too. I tried talking to the parents, the Sunday School Leader, everything. It got to where I dreaded my class instead of looking forward to it. I tried different things and felt like a failure for not being able to sustain control at times. The next year I had really great kids who wanted to learn and the joy was back.

I really felt for the 6th grade teacher who had them next and at a teacher's meeting she shared her frustrations about them. While I empathized with her and tried some suggestions it made me feel better that it was not just me. This lady was also a real teacher in her day job so it made me realize that some kids are just downright difficult and almost unteachable. And those kids can make a teachers life miserable.