I'm really about to lose my mind. I work in a fucking insane asylum.
I told you guys about one situation in WTF Wednesday yesterday, with the kid who's threatening his teachers (the mother never came in, btw, and I have no idea what's going on there). Also...
- yesterday I took a class down to lunch and there was a first grader shrieking at the top of his lungs because he lost at 7-up. No consequence.
- on my way upstairs I passed the guidance counselor with a kindergartner who has been in our building for 2 days. He was found siting on the window ledge in the bathroom...6 feet above the floor. When the mother was called she said, "That's not a big deal. I don't care." No consequence. (This is the same kid who, when i told him to sit in time-out, turned his back and yelled at me to leave him alone).
- another (BIG) first grader threw himself on the floor yesterday, screaming, then pushed and HIT the guidance counselor. NO FUCKING CONSEQUENCE.
- the same kid started crying and slamming the chair in front of him today because he didn't like the seat I assigned him. I called the office to have him removed from my classroom. Nobody came.
This has all happened in two days. I really feel like the inmates are running the asylum and we have no backup or support. It's insanity.
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I have to ask @Salsera29, are you at all afraid for your health/safety with these kids around (especially being pregnant)?
Gosh, that is so scary. Why doesn't anything happen? Is it just that the parents don't care therefore the administrators can't really do anything.
In the schools here, if a kids threatens a teacher or acts that way it's immediate suspension.
/rant on
As for the kids, it breaks my heart that they have no support from home and no guidance. It really is a vicious cycle. The parents I work with through casa have grown up in similar situations and are now dealing with CPS as a consequence of having no parenting skills or motivations to be parents. Some how that cycle has to be broken or we will just end up with more and more broken people/kids
/rant off
I understand what you mean @Salsera29. I just think it's sad that a teacher has to feel afraid of their students and powerless to make a change. I hold teachers in very high regard and think that they are grossly underpaid for the important job that they do which just makes it worse to hear that they have to work in an environment like you do.
I hope you (and baby) stay safe at work for the durtion of your pregnancy.