2nd Referral

Well yesterday was awesome. Students actually learned! Conversely, learning was a true challenge today. In a moment of transparent frustration, I heard a student ask, "Ms. Fisher, are you giving up on us?" I responded firmly, "No, Antonio I am not giving up on you. I will never give up on you."

Thennn 4th period happened. Dallas, a challenging student, to say the least, fails to perform any work every day. He takes medication in the morning and therefore is quite focused in his classes earlier in the day; however, by the end of the day, his meds significantly fade. Ultimately, this afternoon as I stood about 4-5 feet from this young man, he flung a pencil in my general direction, and it "happened" to hit me. In all honesty, I don't think he was really trying to throw a pencil at me...but indeed, a pencil from his hands no doubt made contact with my stomach. I said, "Dallas, did you really just throw a pencil at me?!" To which he complained, "Ms. Fisher, do you really think I would throw a pencil at you?" with a smug, self-content expression across his arrogant adolescent face. "See me after class." At the end of the period, after multiple reminders to stay, Dallas walked out. Frustrated and unsure of the next appropriate move I asked my lead administrator who informed me that to walk out when asked to stay is an automatic referral. Thus..my second referral. Good times. It turns out that he shouldn't even have been in my class because he had gotten in trouble in an earlier class. He will be in ISS (in-school-suspension) for the next two days - great for the learning of my 4th block, but rough on his academic chances in Algebra.

Grad school will likely be a breeze compared to this.