Things had been going pretty well lately. Yes, my students drive me crazy, and yes, getting remediation plans together for the 85% of my students who were failing was a giant disaster, but even so, things seemed to be running a little more smoothly. I've had a string of good weekends (Caitlin visited from New York, then my cousin visited, then this past weekend I went to a coworker's birthday party Saturday and somehow managed to get two weeks ahead in planning on Sunday). And my classes have been generally manageable and my students reasonably nice.
But today that kind of went to shit when one of my students stole my purse out of my locked classroom. Now, I say one of my students because it certainly wasn't a crime of stealing valuable things, seeing as my laptop, car keys, and cell phone were all with me, and the only thing that actually stayed missing was the $7 cash I had and some pens. No, this was most certainly an issue of someone really hating me--enough to shove all my belongings (wallet, laptop charger, headphones) into the sanitary napkin disposal in the girl's bathroom and ditch my purse on the floor, where one of my other students found it and brought it back to me.
Now, this pisses me off. I'm not really mad about the purse. I got everything back, and the only slight hassle will be waiting for my new credit card to come in the mail. What pisses me off is that one of my students, all of whom I had trusted, was actually lacking in integrity enough to risk going to jail for the sake of minorly inconveniencing me for an hour or two. I know my class may piss students off, but does that really seem worth it?
Anyway, I've since lost motivation to do anything productive like grades tests or plan for tomorrow's lesson. And it doesn't help that I can't make tomorrow's overhead transparencies because, of course, someone stole my overhead markers. So my students will be subjected to a crappy, hastily put together lesson tomorrow, and honestly, I just don't feel guilty about that right now.
2 comments:
How in the world did a student get into your locked classroom?!
I told a co-worker about what happened to you. She said that there are a few students at our school who have stolen teachers' bags before. If it's any consolation, even in upper middle class Korean schools, students steal bags.
Don't worry about it. Things will get better, even if they get worse first. Light at the end of the tunnel!
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