Today on my way back to my classroom during lunch, I witnessed Jeremy run past Liza. Both of these kids are my students, but do not have classes together. Jeremy is heavy weight and Liza is very cute and has a lot of 6th grade boys interested.
As Jeremy ran past Liza, he smacked her on her butt. Liza saw me, came running over to tell me about it. I told her that she needed to fill out an incident report and I would do a referral. Later on during my prep, I ran into TFA partner teacher who told me that apparently Fridays at our school is "Smack Ass Fridays." Both boys and girls are participating in this, some very willingly, especially if the opposite gender is the one you are interested in.
Well, Liza is definitely not interested in Jeremy. However, I had to wonder to myself if she would have so willingly told on Jeremy if it had been one of the boys she does like. I don't think so. Regardless, I had to write the referral on Jeremy and include the tag of "sexual harassment," which will go into his permanent file.
With all this energy and creativity spent on coming up with such a nifty title for a weekly event, one would wish that this same energy and creativity could be directed towards academics.
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Sounds like the administration needs to have zero tolerance on this.
uhm, i know this isn't very teacherly. But there ARE some asses, I'd like to smack. I'm sweating just thinkin about it. . . lol
On the real, if the admin knows they need to take a more serious approach.
I'm with Miss Teacha -- how about Smack 'em in the forehead for asking the same question 3 other people just did Mondays? No? ; )
I'd probably be a terrible teacher. I sort of feel bad for Jeremy. But if his smack was truly unwanted, then I'd kick his butt. See? Terrible teacher.
Kids'll do most anything to get out of real work, won't they?
I hope students here don't catch wind of that weekly event. You're right though, why can't they be as creative with their work for school? It's frustrating to see their priorities surface in such unexpected ways.
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