No More Southside...I think

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 I found out that another change was made to the sub system so I was able to put in my preferred sub-area. Some schools would take over an hour to get to and back. And with taking evening classes for special education, it is just too much. So at least my schools will now be within 30 minutes of my apartment. It was another rough day. At first, it started out ok. I had a small group of students in a self-contained special education classroom. A nice group of kids. A little hyperactive but polite and tried to work hard. I wasn't exactly filling in for one teacher. I was then in with a group of 7th graders while their teacher had a meeting. That lasted about an hour and they were fine too. Just when I thought it was going to be ok...I was sent to cover gym for the rest of the day so that teacher could test students. My first group: 4th grade. I love 4th grade! They came in, took their spots and proceeded to make my life a living hell. I should say that it was really only about 7 of them...one girl in particular. It was lovely. She called me a bitch for telling her to get quiet and listen since we were in a large gym with sounds bouncing off the walls along with several kids. When I got closer to her I was told to "get my white face out of her face". This group was pulled out and placed on a wall inside the gym but when the male teacher left, they screamed and yells and ruined any chance of giving this group a gym period. We say and waited. I waited to tell her teacher and escort her to the dean because she wasn't going to talk to me that way and get away with it. When the dean told her to apologize to me, she turned her back to me. NICE! For the rest of the day, gym was in their classrooms and a part of me felt bad about that but then there was no way in hell I was going to let another group of seemingly good kids ignore and mistreat me. On top of that, I didn't want to lose my voice. The whistle I was given only encouraged them to be louder.