All I Said At Work Today

"No, you may not use the bathroom"
"No, you may not go get water"
"No, you may not go to your locker"
"I told you that once you destroyed and lost the tenth hall pass I made with my OWN supplies, that you would no longer be leaving the room..."
"I do not want to hear an excuse about why your homework isnt done"
"I need everyone's attention so that I can give the directions"
"I'm waiting... I'm waiting..."
"I'm not going to speak while you're speaking"
"I need you to take a seat"
"Please raise your hand before speaking"
"I cannot hear _____ because others are being disrespectful"
"I do not have extra pencils or pens"
"You need to come to school prepared with your own supplies"
"No, Ricky, I do not smell a fire in the hallway"***

***{So that last one... there actually was a fire in the stairwell. Did the fire alarms go off? No. Did I believe Ricky? No. He sticks his head in to ask about candy and cookies and goblins on a fairly regular basis so the "fire" question seemed like "boy who cried wolf" to me}.


I have to wonder what the school-report-card-people will say. They rated my last school very highly which was a farce. Only we maintained the illusion of order at my old school because my principal was a tyrant. She was able to make the school seem successful based on fear and intimidation. Here, we rely primarily on chaos theory and the laws of gravity and motion... a Murphy's Law kind of attitude.

The one grand success was with the Eternally-Late-I-Have-No-Watch lady... Ten minutes before she was supposed to cover my class, I sent a post-it to her room with a child saying "Just wanted to give you a heads-up... You are scheduled to cover my class in 10 minutes, at 12:20. Thanks!" And it worked. She was on time, and I thanked her and said "I'll be back at 1, when class ends." She actually thanked me for being helpful. Interesting.

In 37.5 minutes, Brian was not in attendance because he tried to stab a kid with a thumbtack during 8th period. Tasha may or may not be "in love," something detected by MFT and I as a possible reason for her cheeriness. Yesterday, whilst Melanie was mocking me in the hallway [ohhh that pissed me off], Tasha says "Melanie, just fucking go to class, dammmnnnn, girl. You got some attitude and Ms. ______ never did nothing to you." Despite the foul language I was quite grateful to have her on my side. Melanie, of course, did not go to class regardless.