Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Leaving early

I left early to go to the bank today, after staying at school pretty late last night and planning a pretty late night tomorrow with an After-School film. Last night, I spent almost an hour going through a kid's notebook with him, sorting everything out and making a new one. He's so disorganized, and I called his mom and told her to send him to Coach Class on Tuesday with a new binder. I bought him dividers and we sat together and made an English binder as well as a homemade planner/calendar. I hope it helps. He's a good kid but one of the most immature students I've ever taught. He wants to do good, though.

Had another fun day being mean. My anonymous commenters would have hated it. Tons of learning occurred today, though, and I made my point, and that's what matters in the end.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a little random, but I've been meaning to suggest that you have your student, Bobby, look into this program for college:

www.biap.umd.edu

He sounds like he'd be a good fit for it. The head of guidance should have info. on how to apply at the school.

Malnurtured Snay said...

Why don't you ... turn off anonymous comments?

Epiphany in Baltimore said...

Because it would cut off people like this last woman, who have something valuable to say.

Epiphany in Baltimore said...

And I don't really care that much. If I ever get personal attackers, I will, but this isn't that. I still wonder why they don't stand behind their comments, though. Seems strange. At least make up an alias so I can sort you all out.

cara said...

sorry about the anonymous comment yesterday.. i was anonymous #1, and i only posted the one comment. hope that clears up some of the confusion. also, i do respect you and think you are a great teacher, and truly an asset to the education system. it was just that i was surprised by your motivation tactic.

"Ms. Cornelius" said...

Oh fercryin'outloud, these are good kids, and they are WAITING-- no begging-- for someone to call them out to show that someone cares enough to make them do their best.

j-e-s-s-i-c-a said...

I think that there are lots of ways to show that you care. Being tough is certainly, certainly one of them.