On Wednesday I had a meeting at the district office. Meetings are always a little nice because I don't have to pay for a substitute and I am not exhausted by the end of the day. Although I am always little worried about what is going to happen when a substitute is in my classroom. Are my students going to be great or disrespectful? Well it wasn't the worse sub report I ever received so I came to school rejuvenated on Thursday. As I walked to my classroom a student came up to me and said she needed to talk to me. She said that she felt like a tattletale, but wanted to tell me. Yesterday on the bus a student of mine came onto the bus holding my tootsie roll jar boasting that he had taken my tootsie roll jar but then was worried about getting caught and then threw it out the window. This was a student I knew was mischievous, but I never expected something like this! I reported this to the administration and to the counselors. The situation was taken care of. I actually felt a little bad for this student... just a little. I went to go talk to him in the principals office and we talked about poor decisions and how he hurt me and I lost trust. I felt that he really did feel bad about what he had done... especially when I saw tears streaming down his cheeks. The counselors and the administration came up with appropriate consequences and this morning I received a beautiful new jar filled with tootsie rolls from this lovely student. He still has to earn his trust back, but I feel he learned an important lesson (especially when his mother sobbed about what he had done.) Well the point of this post... The cute girl that had explained the situation. I talked to her this morning and thanked her for doing what she had done. She said she is glad she told me, but she said that she is now ostracized on the bus. "Everyone hates me," was what she had said. Why is a tattletale so negative? Why is doing the right thing bad? Is she the hero of the story or the villain?
Oh good times at Junior High!!!! Go OJHS!
4 comments:
I feel you, working with my little criminals anyone who tells, or is suspected of telling is the lowest scum of the earth. Integrity has lost all value and meaning to most junior high and high school students. Cheers to your student who did what was right, may she always do so.
Poor girl, something like that happened to me and I got teased for that all through jr. high. Fun times!
HERO! no questions about that. i wish you were here today because i'm really bored during homeroom.
Hero. But how do you tell that to a girl in junior high...? I remember the days...
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