The best high school years to teach: 1 (by a mile) Juniors. With college finally in sight, they start busting ass to get GPA up. 2. 1st Semester Seniors. Excited about finally being the big kids on campus they are happy and motivated 3. Sophomores. No longer scared of how school works, their grades improve, but they act out now because they're not freshmen any longer 4. 2nd Semester Seniors: they don't give a fuuuuuuuck any longer 5. Freshmen. Not prepared for the tougher rigor of high school. They suck. All of them.
This is accurate. Dumb girls are just so sad. Dumb boys know they're dumb and learn to cope by being funny, athletic or something. Dumb girls just have that look like, yeah I know I'll be knocked up by 19 but there's nothing I can do about it.
In college it goes: 1. (By a mile, no...two miles) Non-Traditional Students. The 28 year old in freshman level courses is going to show up to classes, ask real questions, and probably even yell at other students for being assholes. 2. Freshman who are in the major. People that are excited to learn what you're teaching them because they give a shit about the material. Show up to class and are respectful. 3. Black women who are paying their own way. No one will police a college lecture or classroom more than an African American woman that is paying for this class and needs it to graduate. I can't pick up on everything happening with 100+ students but I know who is going to yell at any troublemaker that shows up to a lecture. 4. Pretty much everyone else. Skips a few classes here and there, does the homework-ish and hardly reads the book if they even bought it. College for them is about sex, drugs, and rocky road. 5. Greek Life cliques. Individually people in the greek system are usually pretty good students and most of them even kind of give a shit about grades and classes. When 3 or more take one class something happens where none of them care and instantly they all maintain a 'you don't know what you're talking about' attitude of arrogance. 6. Mr. Fucking Stupid Questions. One in every class unfortunately. Somehow has a life situation that relates to any and all material being taught. Regularly asks questions that contain words that have been lectured on but clearly not ideas that support those words. Requests you to stay after to talk about the lecture EVERY lecture and continues to only push their incorrect agenda on you despite your continued assurances that they don't understand the concepts.
starting a practicum for school counseling at a Title I middle school in August edit: i'll share an experience from my elementary school (feeds into the middle school i'll be at this fall) practicum. 3rd grader was getting his brother and sister ready for school (1st grade and Kindergarten) one morning and some chick breaks into their house to fight their mom. kid gets his brother and sister, goes into a room, locks the door, and calls the police- just like the counselor taught them. mom and intruder continue to scuffle and she calls out for the third grader to jump in and kick the intruder while she's on the ground and yells at him to not call the cops. kid doesn't know what to do and just looses it. intruder ends up leaving and mom beats the kid's ass for 1. calling the cops and 2. not jumping in to help. she then drops them off at school like it's any other day. kid is obviously a wreck all day and spent the day in the counselor's office. all he wanted to do was call his mom at work to make sure she was ok the fight was a result of a facebook beef. intruder drove from myrtle beach to columbia (about 3.5 hours) to settle it 3rd grader is a great kid- student council, safety patrol, peer mediator, etc. shit was fucking rough
I'm with you, but I go 1, 3, 2, 5, 4. I'd rather have freshmen start to figure it out and evolve as the year progresses over seniors that devolve. I've had one year of seniors. NEVER AGAIN. But, my school district is urban and most schools are classified as "persistently failing" or "in need of improvement."
Yeah, my seniors have already signed their scholarship papers and know the exact day their final grades are sent to colleges. After that, they are DONE. Fuck freshmen though. "You mean I have to do homework at home?"
Haha. Well, my district advocates for less homework because they know kids won't do it. Talk about fucking enabling. Most of our seniors don't sign scholarship papers. For example, another "graduating" senior from my school was murdered last night.
My district has a large amount of middle schools and K-8 schools. Some are quiet and fairly disciplined. Others are insane. So, they come up to 9th grade, and they have a lot more freedom, and models for shitty behavior. Give a bad teenager freedom...
I always felt that Freshmen weren't people. Helped me through the day. I taught sophomores and seniors...it was a weird dichotomy as the day went on.
Anyone keep up with former students by checking the arrests section of the newspaper or online mugshots?
Just saw the other day one of our former players is doing 30 hard in the state penitentiary for 2nd degree murder, car jacking, kidnapping
my favorite age group to coach football do you also coach that age group? I remember seeing that you coached, but didn't know if it was a different age level or not.
Taught freshmen the past two years. It amazes me the things they think they're entitled to. Also my personal favorite when things don't go their way "imma call my momma" like their mom is God or something. Love breaking them little fuckers of that habit and baptizing them into the real world.
The last few years I was a High School coach. I'm not doing it this year but instead I'm helping with my 4th grade nephews so I'm excited for that.
stabber or stabbee? is that even a word? unfortunately, that cycle begins again once they hit college. that is, if they make it that far.
My response is always "sure, what's your mom's number? I'll call her right now!" I then proceed to take out my phone. 9/10 back down right there.
They get their feelings hurt by their because parents don't like receiving phone calls about their child in the middle of the day. I remember one specifically 2 years ago. Student had a piece of paper during the final exam. I take the exam and give the student a 0. Well she gets mad and we call her mom. Mom asked me one question "will she fail the class?" I said "no". Mom told me to put her on speaker and said "go ahead and give her the 0 and have a nice day Mr. Pearl" and hung up. The look on her daughter's face was like this Even after all that, the student still says I'm her favorite teacher she's had. She stopped by my class multiple times early last year and was always telling them that "mr. Pearl is not scared of your parents, I found that out the hard way"
...Unless you get the parents that struggled in school and society, and continue to perpetuate the cycle of failure by telling their kids to fight in school, not trust teachers, ignore punishments, or actively bring in their other children to fight for a different child. Then, parent support isn't helpful. I can't tell you the amount of times I have called home on a kid with the kid there, and the kid says "Go ahead, my mom don't answer. She sees the school number and don't never answer."
Yeah, seen that happen. This student is a good kid though, just got a little too big for her britches at that particular time. Thing is I was going to allow her to finish the exam if she just gave up the sheet of paper but she refused. She finally gave me the sheet of paper afterwards, which made me shake my head because of the content on the paper.
Teacher whose giant room I have taken over was none too happy with the decision. Like I personally went to the principal and pointed to his room and said "Kick him out and give that to me" or something. I actually suggested the principal kick him out and give it to one of our art teachers who was in an even smaller room than me. Unfortunately for him, they couldn't install a sink in there...but they could install me.
My girlfriend got a job teaching 7/8th grade arts at a tiny rural school She's in for some serious culture shock
I told her to be quiet and just take the L (loss). She responded with "fuck you, I ain't the fucking one" and walked out of class. Curiously she proceeded to hang around close to my door so she can go with my class to lunch, yet didn't want me to say anything to her. I'm going to hate this class block
Played Pass the Popcorn for the first time today. I love when the bottom drops out on them. The set up: "Today we're going to play Pass the Popcorn, a movie trivia game. And you are all playing as a team. Anytime any player on your team guess the right movie, EVERYONE gets a Jolly Rancher!" First card I pull is something simple like Iron Man or Jurassic Park, they get it easy and they are all thrilled they are getting free candy. The catch: "Oh! I forgot the other part of the game...one of you needs to take half of the cards, and ask me questions. If I get it right, I take away a Jolly Rancher." Faces fall. Final Tally for each class: 2nd Period: -4 4th: -7 5th: -4 6th: -1 Fun for me and it also shows them I know my shit.