Posted by Stoots at c68.115.107.121.roc.mn.charter.com on October 18, 2003 at 21:50:45:
I was just wondering if any of you guys have any interesting stories from when you were in middle or senior high school about your teachers freaking out at some deliquint kid in front of the entire class.
I was a high school science teacher for three years, but I spent the last two of it in a piss-poor town where 1/3 of the population's income was below poverty level. I kept getting stuck with teaching 9th grade Chemistry and Physics (also known as Physical Science). I was a Biology major, and Chem/Physics doesn't really interest me AT ALL. And 9th graders are a HORRIBLE age to have to deal with! I was just thinking back today of all the shitty things that happened to me while I was a teacher - like stuff getting stolen, kids making fun of me, shit like that - I even had a Hispanic student say "Lick my balls" when I asked him to leave the room for being a disturbance.
I can remember the moment I decided I no longer wanted to be a teacher - when I went to ask my principal for some help dealing with these kids, all he told me was "Maybe you should change the way you teach - you should go observe Mr. (Smith) and try to model the way he teaches." Well, fuck - Mr (Smith) was one year away from retiring and talked like Ben Stein in that scene from Ferris Beuller's Day Off. Fucking joke.
So I got a job with the Mayo Clinic, and they are now paying me to go back to school as a student! In just 5 or 6 years from now, I'll be earning TWO OR THREE TIMES as much as that dumbass principal who wouldn't help me out - and I'm probably gonna go laugh in his face! HA!
Wow...where'd all that pent up aggression come from? Anyway - just wanted to see if you guys have any memories of teachers freaking out - or was I the only one???