sigh

end of the year is proving to quite the literal hellstorm.

monday/tuesday: had a student that I thought I had a good relationship with, tell me that there was no relationship, that I am a b*(tch, and bascially laugh in my face, because I refused to give her cell phone back until she apologized appropriately for being rude.

today, I had one of my students tell me I was stupid and to shutup. This is a quiet student from Yemen, who later denied to her mother, while sitting in front of me that she had said those two exact things. This is due to the fact that I had asked her to hand over her gum in class because she was passing it to a neighbor. She refused, so I brought her outside for a discussion, which turned into a veritable confrontation due to the sheer level of vitriol and attitude coming out of her mouth.


Of course when I asked mom to show up, mom did not believe that her daughter had told me to shutup.

This now means that I bring another teacher to corroborate this story, who happened to be in the hallway when I was having my 'conversation' with the student.

oh such joy.

This week has been painful in many ways, and I still have two weeks and the next two days to go before it ends. I am having doubts that I will, in fact, get through this with any last vestiges of sanity still left in place.

In other news, the acuity test scores have come in, and it looks like there were significant jumps for my lower students, and not so much for my higher students. I know what I need to focus on for next year. sigh* at this point though, I feel as though I'm on autopilot in a relentless grinding machine. I wish I wasn't hanging on by a thread.

Sara