Ok, not going to be a long post, but today was a very frustrating day. I had one of my students bring in his Sony PSP, which he knows he isn’t allowed to bring. This has occured several times, and I have heard him stating that he might sell it to a seventh grader. In any event, someone managed to steal it from his backpack, and it was not recovered. He flipped out when it went missing, and went back and forth from tears to yelling to angry pacing. We ended up in the office, and I spent the majority of my planning period searching desks, meeting with the principal and security officer, and searching the school. We eventually found another PSP, but not the missing one, although finding that involved searching backpacks, having students turn out pockets, and other fun things.
If that wasn’t enough, right after lunch, there was an epic fight. Alligations where tossed about that one student narced on another about the thefts, and before I knew it, there were 30+ kids surrounding three fighters. This was a crazy scene, since I was alone in terms of staff. Three other soon joined me, but lets just say we literally had to pull these kids apart, and I may have taken a few blows to the arms getting between them. I know we’re supposed to just say “please stop,” but one student’s head was being slammed against the tiles, and I was afraid for his safety. We got them apart, and there were some brief suspensions, but they all ended up back in my room for the last hour of the day.
Finally, I had two other girls on inschool suspension (cursing and screaming in the room at 8:10 am), as well as a student tell me he wanted to hit me in “the testicles” and that he’d “crack” me “in the face.” It was a looong day…
