As a teacher I had my first blow up with a student. I've went the entire year, held my tongue, lost my patience. This girl is the most rude, disrespectful, obnoxious, piece of work I've ever seen. She is so rude to her peers and to her teachers. Well today I had personally had enough. The last class of the day is World History from 1499-Present. As I'm introducing, This Day in History, per usual, she just starts talking about her overdramatic love life. I politely ask her to stop and listen, but noooooooooo she kept on going and that when I felt Mt. Vesevius 2.0 about to happen. So I waited, took a deep breath, and continued. Well she finally stopped talking and then we started the instruction on the Industrial Revolution. So as I start she thinks it's okay to sit beside her so called friend and start talking again about pointless drama. While the rest of the class was listening and taking notes I decided to let her talk, because I had a devious plan up my sleeve...POP QUIZ.
While the rest of the class aced the quiz she did not. So to continue, after the quiz the students continued work on a project for creating their own inventions, much like those of the industrial revolution. It was then I over heard this girl talking about sexual things, and what she thought of me. At the point I kicked her out of class and forced her to work in the hallway. When she came back in after class ended I made her stay. I told this girl in a raised voice how disrespectful she truly was, and that she had the audacity to disrespect me in front of the entire class. I then told her that until further notice she lost all electronic privileges and had to sit by herself from now on. I then continued on about how I've attempted to have patience with her, but I lost it because of her sorry a** attitude, and her respect. I continued on telling her that if she didn't learn to respect authority that she was eventually just going to be another statistic for females in prison. Keep in mind she's reared up at this point, but I didn't care. I then went on and told her that if she continued disrespecting myself and her peers, and continued being as rude as possible that she would quickly find herself alone and afraid with no one there to help her.
Then I told her to leave my class and I expected better out of a young lady not a wannabe thug.
Was I harsh? Yes.
Was I out of line? Maybe.
Do I care? Yes. As a teacher it's my job to care for all my students, regardless of the hell they give me. I want to see them all succeed. Are they all gonna succeed? No, but I can damn sure try.
Sorry for the rant, carry on
