Drama in Schools

So this morning has been pretty interesting here at my high school. This school has some issues, always. If you are an employee of the school district, that is just what you are. You are not here to make friends with employees or be buddy buddy with the students. An employee. Your job is not to have specific conversations to students about their behavior, especially if you are just a monitor or security guard. That is not part of your job description. You certainly don't have that conversation with a student about another student, which happens to be one of their friends. You say that they students act like little kids, but here you go joining the crowd and getting into their conversation as if you were a high school student. That is just something that you don't do.



So why get mad when your supervisor wants to talk to you about the situation and what was actually said about that student. Don't be mad about. You said it, so face it. Although you face it, no one needs to know that you are going to speak your mind, and you are not going to get loud with people and you don't like people saying things about you that you did or did not say. WOW!!! Now the shoe is on the other foot. Now you want to go and cry about it to me because the supervisor wants to talk to you about it. Again, don't cry about it now. It was not your place to say those things. Listen, if you feel like you are having problems with the students, then you should take it to their principal. Because the way that you handled that was very unprofessional and you were so not in your place to say that to a student that you know nothing about. You only know of what you see and hear from other students.



(sorry, I got lost in the moment and felt like I was talking to that employee) Oh, trust me, I have said something to that employee about it. That was only because that person came to me. I was not going to say a word, but I had to give a little advice.



If it has nothing to do with you or no one has said your name, stay out of it. Now, when you hear your name calling, then you run.



I do this with my husband. When he is having a conversation about something with someone else, I never get in the middle of it. Why? Because he is not talking to me and most of the time, it does not concern me. I just listen for my name.



Have a wonderful Friday and an even Fabulous weekend.

High School Students

I just don't seem to understand what it about high school students these days. I know that my parents did not play when it came to my behavior and class work. My parents actually came to see about my grades and how I was doing in class. Not to try and get a cell phone back that they teacher took up because the student decided that texting their friends was more important than paying attention in their classes.

They come to school looking like, who did it and what for. Then they don't go to their classes. Decided that the lunch on campus is not good enough and leave campus for lunch, when they are not suppose to. Then, when they get caught, they wonder why they have to suffer the consequences. Most of the time, ending up in In-House suspension because the either the principles do not want to deal with them, don't have time, or just somewhere for them to go. The most students that I have had in one room, is a room of 30 students. Students that have been skipping classes, disrespectful in those classes, leaving campus, eating in class, using electronics, and any other thing that they are not supposed to be doing.

So they wonder why they are failing in their classes and why mom and dad are upset about it.

Because, you don't go to class. When you do, your not paying attention and wonder why the teacher wants to send you out of their classroom. Parents allow their children to have cell phones, but they break the rules about no cell phone use in the classroom. Then the parent and the child wonders why their cellphone was taken up and wants to yell at the teacher about it.

Oh no! Please don't do that! My motto is, "I don't play with children". If you are old enough to understand the words that are coming out of my mouth, you are old enough for me to put you out of my classroom and administer the correct discipline that your actions deserve. Then the parent wants to tell you that you should respect their child, when its their child who obviously doesn't have respect for their own parents. If you don't teach your child and enforce it, then how will they know how to conduct themselves in the world with everyone else.

Now, I am not a direct parent. I have two step-children that I do discipline when they are with my husband and I. They understand what the rules and regulations are of our household and what will happen if they do not follow those rules. But if you just let your child run over you and tell you what they are not going to do, then you have a big problem on your hands.

I have a big issue with part-time, drop off parents. I say part-time because of the parents that only want to see their children when it is convenient for them. I'm not talking about the ones that actually work a job and provide for their child, even if they don't have the child. I am talking about the ones that are just plan lazy. The one's that would rather have their hair done or a new pair of sneakers that cost well over $100, before they will see about their own child. And the child may not even have on a pair of shoes or any that cost that much.

So why let your child suffer because you want to be selfish? Better yet, why let your child run your life and tel l you where they are going and what they are going to do? You are the parent and they are the child. If you provide the discipline that they are suppose to have when they are younger, they will know the consequences of their actions later. If you start late and just think that they are going through a phase, then it will end up wrong. By the time you start, you become scared of your own child.

Now, I am sure that some people say that I have to a lot to say for someone who does not have kids of their own. But, I have learned alot through many years of watching and doing. So I may not have all of the answers. But then, who does. I doubt it if your doctor hands you a "How To" book as soon as the baby comes out. Do they?