A Never Ending Year of Middle School

Did you have a good time in Middle School? I sure did. It was a very interesting 3 years of my life in which I learned to become independent and figured out that I hated my life as it was up until that point. I started to learn just what type of people I liked to hang out with and I learned some hard lessons about people.

School starts up again tomorrow, I can't wait to see the new young ones and see my old young ones. I saw some of them at the County' Back to School Fair. It was great! It's always wonderful to see kids getting active and volunteering. Especially because 2 of the 3 kids from my school who were here have some very active personalities. It heartens me to see that they are putting their activeness to good use.

I'm really exited for tomorrow. I think that's a good thing for someone who's still pretty new at her job right?

Final Exams etc

Today is review day in my school. We start final exams tomorrow. I fully expect today to be a rowdy day. All the troublemakers are in school today, but that's no garuntee that they will stay in school. They like to leave after 3rd or 4th period. Children think that there will be no punishment to themselves but they never realize until they have 20/20 hindsight that they've hurt themselves. Their friends don't realize they've messed up their lives either until much later or they blame others. The success or ruination of your life starts the minute you know right from wrong. You cannot blame someone else for your choices or blame your parents. In the end, you make your own choices and your own life, make good choices and learn from your mistakes.

On another note, the kids at this school seem to think I have cute smile. Being female, I always have to be careful how I interact with the kids. It's alright for them to think I have a cute smile as long as that's it. I always have to keep in mind that I am the Adult and I have to treat these kids professionally and carefully.

An Easy day

Today the worst thing that happened to me was I got spit in my mouth from a kid. EW!

But the story is kind of funny. After sixth grade lunch, one of my regular kids came up to me and said "I think I'm going to throw up!" So I sent him to the nurse's office. As I was following him, he stopped and said "I felt like I was going to throwup because I saw a two-foot long poop in the toilet." I was dumfounded...

The Pencil and the Weave

Could be an interesting title to something someday. but no. My title is more literal. These are things I found lying around the school for me to find. A kid's pencil in a toilet and a weave lying on the ground. You would think a weave would be less common but this is the second one I've found in 2 months.

It looks like a worm...but it's actually braided hair.

Student: "Someone ate a lot of fiber today."

Teacher: "Wow, students actually learn something in health class..."

Finally a Real Boy!

Ok, so actually I'm finally a real security assistant, which is to say my uniforms finally came in so my bosses are exclaiming that I finally look like the real deal.

Science MSAs today, which means kids are loud and noisy while other kids are testing. YAY!!!!! Just means I have to be extra diligent and shush a lot of children.

On a happy note, Seems several kids are taking a shine to me, and not just the trouble children. I'm learning names and making child friends, which can only help me as long as I keep the perspective that I'm the Adult and ultimately I may have to be the "bad guy" to keep these kids safe.

Detention Detention!

3 kids in Detention today.

One claims he didn't do anything. He says he accidentally fell on a kid's leg and they took the other kid's word that he did it on purpose. Who knows, it may be true. This kid apparently hasn't been in trouble since the 6th grade. The other kid apparently has a parent on the PTA board. If it's true this is very unsettling, if it's not then he's lying. A delimma to put on the backburner I suppose.

One kid is in detention for horseplaying and insubordination. She's doing pretty well except that with one of the other girls in the room, they are playing aroudn too much...unfortunately this means I'm going to have to give a bad report. That sux for me. This job is a hard one only for the fact that authority is so kind of hard to have. How does one balance how much to press they authority?

Lastly, a girl slapped a boy because he was annoying her. I mean....wow.....dejavu. I did this too. Same grade and everything. Except, he punched me in the stomach after i grabbed him. We didn't get detention, we got suspension, a whole day. I never did it again, but this kid is trouble. Real trouble. She gets suspended all the time, she thinks causing trouble is nothing. It really truly bothers me. She's got a troubled family life, but hey, most people do these days, so its no excuse.

TGIF

It's Friday! This marks the end of my second week!

So some highlights of this week:

• A student is now calling me Mrs. John Wall
• The students whom I have given advice seem to be taking it.
• I only had to take one group of students to the office today

I just want to say, the slapping game, where you slap each other's hand until one of you gives up or you bleed is the stupidest game ever. The only game worse is the punching game! Whoever invented it or started it was an idiot. Kids do not need more ways to boast and be cool. Often being COOL is what gets people killed. It disgusts me.