Book on the head

Sometimes my grade 9s are so bad.

On Wednesday, I thought that I was going to throw some of them out the window. The Korean teachers are preparing for next weeks midterms so my Korean co-teacher was not in class with me for about 10minutes or so. The Korean teachers are supposed to be in class with me to discipline the kids at all times except for my after school special program. That special program I run on my own. But, he was busy and I wanted to start the class anyway. That ten minutes should have been called 'flip your teacher off time'. Everybody seems to think that it was play time and let's say rude things in Korean about the teacher. Note that I have 90% boys in my classes. I have about 500 students a week that I see. I think that I see more students than any other teacher. I teach my classes to every grade and every home room class. Wow, I just realized that is a lot of kids.

Anyway. I was furious in this class. Every 30 seconds I had to stop and yell at someone for disrupting the class. At one point I dropped my books and said, screw this, "if you kids don't want me to teach then this section of the midterm you will get zero on. I don't even care".

At another point I made one kid stand in front of the class against the wall because he was bad. Another kid I bounced my text book on his head. He thought I was playing with him so I don't think that was too effective.

The moment the Korean teacher came in you could hear a pin drop. I was livid! I started screaming at them and saying, "Oh, so now that the Korean teacher is here you all are on your best behavior, eh"?

OMG

I rushed through the lesson. Not really taking the time that I normal would to explain things. At the end of the lesson when the bell rang I made them all stay in their seats. In front of them I told the teacher what I thought. Then he kindly asked me to leave the class and when I saw him again he said that they would never be bad again. We will see what angels appear next week.

My Korean teachers beat the kids with sticks. I tried one of them and they hurt just doing it lightly, ouch. After the class he said I should carry one with me. Hmmmmmm

I think that I have other ideas to control their behavior. I have some army style ideas. Kids hate being embarrassed and I can definitely do that.

I want them to like me and not fear me but I they must respect me in order for me to be nice.

Holy, being a teacher can be rough!

But, I am enjoying it a lot!