Not a Mister Rogers Post..

Anyway,

I work on Jupiter.

No really, I have moments like, "WTF is going on here at 163"

EXAMPLE:

I just got a new student last Wed.

Seemed O.K., but one word...NUTS!!

Today, I tried to redirect her during writing. She had to move down to the bottom of our behavior board for talking to her new friend clear across the carpet during instruction, so she was ticked. When I asked her to write, she CHUNKED the paper at my face.

I asked her to come speak to me at the back of the room. I was proud of myself, I kept my cool, I mean she is 6. Then she got even more mad, went out in the hall and began to tear down my student work. I called security to come get her, YES I SAID SECURITY, and then she lost it. She threw freaking crayons at me, and kicked a bucket at me. I was like "Damn Girl, you got issues". I wanted to be like "Oh no you didn't just throw crayons at me. I mean girl you live in the Bronx, crayons, seriously." I better be careful she might make a shank out of her pencil (really happened in a second grade classroom) and come at me.

Needless to say, I am not having a Mr. Rogers kind of week. I mean hell, if I tried to switch my shoes in front of them, they would steal them and hock them on the street for 5 bucks, and then go buy a damn snack at the bodega and eat it my class. Oh my friend, it is quite the vicious cycle.

Meanwhile, i have made friends with the roosters in my parking lot across from school. Maybe they will have advice, but I think they are just playing me so they can jump in my car for their getaway someday. But they will have to face it, someday they might end up at the store across the street that butcher live chickens in front of you (NOT KIDDING)!!

Again, I say JUPITER!!

Peace and Love