Can anyone say, "High Maintenance?" I thought you could.
So in this one class I have the following kids:
Commie kid
John Birch kid
Too-cool-for-school kid
Goth-kid-with-heart-of-gold
District-employee's-kid-with-more-than-a-soupcon-of-underachievement, alias You-can't-make-me kid
2 kids who can handle school only 2 hours a day
Cheerleader kid
Read-a-holic kid (God bless him!)
And these are mixed in with a smattering of 2 kids with the sunniest of dispositions, a kid who only wants to talk about music, a kid who has lived in this country for three years but speaks better English than almost anyone else in the room, 2 foreign exchange students, a kid with an incredible knowledge of South Park, and a kid with a 504 a mile long who still tries really hard.
And they all get along, mostly.
It's like that painting entitled "The Peaceable Kingdom." Although I may lose my mind before rough winds finish shaking the darling buds of May.
Labels: the teaching life
posted by "Ms. Cornelius" @ 10:35 PM
4 Comments:
That is hilarious!
I picture them singing "Happy Birthday" together. I love it when a class of kids with all-over-the-map personalities unites in song for someone's birthday.
(though the unison tends to break up when the octave comes along...)
And of course, ALL of those kids are the "average" students for whom the standardised tests were designed!
Hahahahaha.
Sheesh.
andrea
Lovely word, soupcon. You don't see it in print all that much, although I have kids in my classes to whom I could apply the word too--oh, yeah!
I started a blog, too... I wrote about exactly what happens when you administer a state test to such a group as I got to do this week (thrills! spills! pornography!). I usually post as rita, but now I'm in deep cover....
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