We Don’t Pay Them To Come To School

Posted on | January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment

It is weird, how one day you can feel like you’re the best teacher in the whole world, and then another day, feel like one of the worst. I suppose some of my kiddos didn’t have a good three-day weekend, because they weren’t in a very good mood today, and I wasn’t either, having gotten up at 7:15, 15 minutes before I was supposed to be at work.

Everything went along pretty smoothly, though, except for one thing. This one kid, who is really artistic and who has alienated every single staff member besides myself, showed me his bad side. He was upset about the assignment (for no reason that I could discern) and decided to color his map in abstract art style. When I addressed this, and other behaviors with him, he looked at me with the most sincere look on his face and said, “You don’t like my river?”

I wanted to slap him.

He ended up going home early, which made me happy. This kid holds down a job, and apparently does well. I just can’t stand passive-aggressive crap from students! Whenever I point out the discrepancy between their behavior at school and at work, they point out that they are not getting paid to come to school.

You can see how much education is valued.

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One Response to “We Don’t Pay Them To Come To School”

Margaret
January 23rd, 2008 @ 3:26 am

We go over stats with our kids that show them how much MORE on average a person makes with a high school diploma, a BA, a Masters, etc…so education does pay!!(except for teachers–boo hoo)