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Subbed my first class today--sixth grade English. Went pretty well (especially considering I'd never taught anybody anything, or even supervised more than one kid at once, before in my life), until the last period when I almost think the little buggers started conspiring against me. Seriously, one kid would ask me for help with the assignment, and immediately three others would be at the other end of the classroom doing something obnoxious, unnecessary or just mind-blowingly stupid. They coordinated it somehow, the good ones who just need help and the ones who want to do something like tie another kid's shoelaces together.
And no, I'm not making that one up, one boy actually tied another's shoelaces, from different shoes, together--boy #2 claims he didn't notice. FFS! How do you not notice that? No, I wasn't silly enough to ask, I just split them up, but how, I'm asking? Did he actually notice and think, hey, that sounds fun, I'll be unable to walk? And lemme tell you, it wasn't just a bow, or even a square knot. This child's shoelaces looked like a miniature rubber-band ball.
The rest of them, thankfully, just got out of their desks and wandered over to "help" kids on the other side of the room, unasked-for. Or just moronic roughhousing between boys. Or girls holding loud conversations with their friends on the other side of the classroom. Could have handled one or two, but they went off one after the other, like firecrackers. It was a bloody tweeny-bopper ambuscade.
So, I've seen shots from anime where a guy will split into several people. Is there some way to do that in real life? Because I'm damned if I can think of another way to keep twenty kids in line when they don't want to. Unless you have a list of all the bad ones beforehand, and a little corral to keep them in.
Oh well. Next time will go smoother, I hope. I imagine that, by the last period, any kids will be tired of learning and ready to act like cretins.
And no, I'm not making that one up, one boy actually tied another's shoelaces, from different shoes, together--boy #2 claims he didn't notice. FFS! How do you not notice that? No, I wasn't silly enough to ask, I just split them up, but how, I'm asking? Did he actually notice and think, hey, that sounds fun, I'll be unable to walk? And lemme tell you, it wasn't just a bow, or even a square knot. This child's shoelaces looked like a miniature rubber-band ball.
The rest of them, thankfully, just got out of their desks and wandered over to "help" kids on the other side of the room, unasked-for. Or just moronic roughhousing between boys. Or girls holding loud conversations with their friends on the other side of the classroom. Could have handled one or two, but they went off one after the other, like firecrackers. It was a bloody tweeny-bopper ambuscade.
So, I've seen shots from anime where a guy will split into several people. Is there some way to do that in real life? Because I'm damned if I can think of another way to keep twenty kids in line when they don't want to. Unless you have a list of all the bad ones beforehand, and a little corral to keep them in.
Oh well. Next time will go smoother, I hope. I imagine that, by the last period, any kids will be tired of learning and ready to act like cretins.
He was the go-to guy for most classes and everyone was familiar with him.
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