I have a very difficult class this year.

Last week I got on one of my boys because he was totally wasting his time. They were suppose to be solving some math problems and he was goofing off. When it was time to correct I called him for the answer to the second problem. He didn't have it of course and I went into my "Life Choices" speech. In essence, the choices you make today, effect who you become tomorrow. Poor choices in your youth are probably going to lead to a hard life as an adult. I made him cry.

His mother called me and left a voice mail, very upset with me for upsetting her son about his future. Of course he didn't tell her how he'd been wasting his time all morning. In her tirade she says that they are a Christian family and she is trying to instill Christian values in her son.

Yeah...

Today I discover him playing with a cootie catcher. I didn't look at it until after school. Four of the answers under the numbers... n1gger, f@g, pu$$y and f@ck off.

Those Christian values seem to be really taking hold.

Then there's the kid with anger management issues, who doesn't know why he's mad another kid, but he is, so he gets physical with him.

The kid who made a flip book on Friday with guns and a guy saying, "Run b1tch!" and "F@ck you!"

The four kids who are working at a second grade level in a fifth grade class...

The three English Language Learners...

The kid with so many disorders, I don't know where to begin...

The kid diagnosed with ADD who takes 90 minutes to answer 16 multiple choice questions. Everyone else finishes in 40 minutes...

I don't get to spend too much of my day actually teaching.

I think I'll be doing a long yoga session tonight... or eating a bunch of ice cream.


Oh... and these are kids in the 'burbs, not inner city children.

Veronica