First Days…

Well, here I am half-way through the first week of school.  Not too much happened…other than one of my students who has ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) chose to physically choke another of my students during PE yesterday.  The poor chokee had to go home early with red marks all around his neck and the choker got 1.5 days in On-Campus suspension.  Well, I have many feelings about this situation.

1.  I’m doing the research on this ODD thing, but I’m not sure I’m buying it.

2.  If my child was choked at school and the kid who did it only got  1.5 days in OCS, I think I’d be pushing for a bit more.

The other gem of the week is a new student who apparently thinks I’m an idiot.  To shorten the story, I’ll cut to the details.  Everyone else had the chance to exchange papers to grade, but this particular student had taken too long, so I was standing over her shoulder grading her paper as I read the answers aloud.  When I was finished, I marked -2 at the top of her page and put the percentage.  This morning when I was putting grades in the computer, I came upon this paper.  I found my -2 erased and replaced with -0, 100%.  Are you kidding me?  Either she thinks I’m a complete idiot, or she’s an idiot.  We’ll be having some words…