Hello friends, family, and strangers (I flatter myself)! I am a recently-graduated girl finding my way in the "real world" (apparently, I've been floating around the fake world for the past two decades). Many of my friends' "real world"s consist of cubicles, nine-to-fives, marriage, babies, and other such grown-up things. My real world looks a little different. Yes, I still get up and go to work every morning, same as they do. But instead of battling fax machines, computer programs, disgruntled spouses and dirty diapers, I arm myself against a legion of 14-year-old boys. Well, 83 of them to be exact. You see, I teach 8th-grade boys' Science in an inner-city, high-poverty school. What it is not: glamorous, prestigious, boring. What it is: humorous, heartbreaking, and the most challenging thing I will ever do.

The stories I tell and the people I describe are real; you can't make this stuff up. If you are new to my blog, I hope you'll start at the beginning and fall in love with its characters, just as I have.

Friday, October 8, 2010

TELL ME WHY...

...the same kid who punched me yesterday showed up at my door second block today???

Apparently, it's ok to hit teachers at RMS. Way to send a great message to the rest of the class.
"Ummm, that would be a NO." I told him, giving him a dramatic "STOP" signal.

"What you talkin' about?" he asked innocently.

"You can't come in here."

"Dis my class. Where you want me to go??"

"That's really not my problem. Bye."

If administration isn't going to do anything with him, then I'm not either.

Off to South Carolina to watch the TIDE play. Deuces.
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