Ralph (all names changed for this), a kindergarten student walks into art room with a grin on his face. Not a good sign for him. A grin on his face means extreme mischief and nonsense to follow. He doesn't want to sit in his seat and instead wanders around the room sitting here and then there. He refuses to go to the designated time-out seat that's by the window of the art room. He goes to other students and grabs at their work, tearing their paper loom (they're learning to weave paper strips). He took his shoes off. I took him by the hand, not letting him go while attempting to help other students with the over and under of weaving at the same time. With his spare hand that I was not holding he swung at students. Smile still on his face. Ridiculous. In all he hit 4 students while in my room. I called security who told me to call our AP who came and took him. Shoes and all. Grin still on his face.
I see a variety of age classes throughout the day-I may have pre-K, Kindergarten, First grade and second grade in one day. My next class was a second grade inclusion class. I'm supposed to have another teacher with me but for whatever reason she's not with me today. For scheduling reasons I only see this class once a week where as I see the other second grade classes twice in one week. Two students are particularly difficult today-we'll call them Walter and Tyquan. Both are kids with a street attitude and smart mouths. Tyquan has a mouth that is moving non stop and Walter an attitude. They mimicked, talked back to me, wouldn't stop talking and joking around until I'd had enough and sent them back to their classroom for being disrespectful. Their classroom teacher seemed surprised and when I asked how they were behaving in her classroom her only reply or offer of support was "They're chill". Whatever the hell that means for a teacher to say of her students.
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