Parents, Your Children Acting Up in School is a Reflection of Your Parenting
Take Responsibility for Your Kids and Correct Their Behavior!
While I had a short work week at my school, it felt like a regular week mushed together. Four days seemed as if it were forty. Is a four-day work week really a benefit? In education, if you’re in the classroom, I would say no. By the end of the day on Friday, I was angry, disappointed, and exhausted. While the students happily ran out of the building to bask in the sun, I slumped in my chair contemplating my career choices — again.
As an educator, it is my job to instruct the students on the lessons within the curriculum. I teach students how to make inferences, connect back to the text, and write summaries. I expand their vocabulary by introducing new words. I have students discussing and pulling evidence from the text. It’s great to see the students apply what they’ve learned but it takes a lot of hard work on my part.
After twenty years earning my battle scars in another district, I knew I was prepared for anything my current district had more me. I was wrong — so wrong. I should have taken heed to the teachers who warned me about the incoming class. Even the school’s Dean of Discipline had less than positive things to say about the group. Apparently, last year was hellish for the teachers and…
