Shhhh....Shhhh....

Today is Tuesday and you know what that means....Yes that's right, tutoring for the World's Worst Second Grade Teacher! Today I didn't do much tutoring instead, I spent two hours cutting out math flash cards. I did however, get to listen to the teacher yell at kids, have a loud cell phone conversation, and have a loud inappropriate personal conversation with the school counselor while the kids were supposed to be doing a word search but were really just messing around.

Today when I got to the classroom the kids were just getting back from lunch and WWT (Worlds Worst Teacher) was in the face of a kid about something, I mean she was really hollering at him, then she justified this yelling to the school counselor by saying, "Sometimes you just have to to it" and the counselor was like, "I know." When the kids come into the classroom, they are supposed to put their head on their desk and be silent; I've been in that classroom every Tuesday for four weeks and the being quite thing has yet to happen because WWT is in the hallway yacking to the counselor and not in the room making sure students do what she says. I personally am not a fan of put your head on the desk but if I said it I would enforce it. I also noticed that she has now moved problem kid number two to the back of the classroom so now problem kid number one has someone to mess around with and she can ignore them both; this happened a lot today. And can I tell you how pencil sharpening can reeks havoc in a room; one kid needs to sharpen a pencil then they all need to sharpen a pencil, the problem is WWT lets them or she might not depending if the kid has pissed her off for the day.

WWT was doing a little skit and she picked a few kids to help her, after the skit was over problem kid number one said, "I didn't get to help." She said something like, "Kids, do you hear what PK1 said? He said he didn't get to help, well PK1 you don't get to help if you don't do your work." Wow, this seemed really harsh! She said is in a nasty tone of voice in front of the whole class. I think you say that kind of think to the PK in private. Then a few kids were slouching in their chairs and she made them stand up with no chair for about two minutes. Here's my problem, she never told them to sit up, at least when I was there, she just said, "Little girl, push your chair out and stand and little boy you too, while were at it." I have not taken Classroom Management but I'm pretty sure making an example of a few students really teaches anybody anything. 16 more hours of this....I hope I don't get car sick.

On a lighter note, I stopped at the grocery store to get some egg noodles for dinner and there, on an end cap, was a box of brownie mix calling my name! It was only a dollar so I brought it home with me; tonight after my Educational Psychology class, I will be having a brownie and vanilla ice cream.