FIRST: Today the kids finished up their pre-assessments, and we went over their service project. Which sounds really cool. I like the idea that all students will have coordinate their community service projects. While it's cool to encourage them to do individual stuff, it's possible to make so much more of an impact when you have 120 teenagers working together. Last year they raised a enough money to build a schoolhouse in rural Ecuador, as well as making extremely valuable efforts to help local charities. The student reaction was mixed. No one seemed reluctant, per se. Just some more enthusiastic than others. For the most part, though, I think that most of the students thought that it would be fun; Mrs Blank made it sound like fun.
On to the drama.
Let me describe a student I have. Let's call him Craig. Craig is a senior in a 10th grade Government class (8th period), which he has to take to graduate (he transferred from out of state, so his credits are all screwed up). Craig is someone who can be... Abrasive.
Apparently, while I wasn't in class yesterday, Craig just bullshitted his pre-assessment and didn't look at the questions. He bubbled in a bunch of random circles and then gave it to Mrs. Blank with a smug look on his face. Like it would really piss her off. When she didn't care, he sulked off to the bathroom. When he came back, he actively tried to distract the other students by poking them, etc. Today he made the water-drip sound while other students were finishing their pre-assessments. When we didn't acknowledge it, he tried to draw attention to it by looking around and saying there was a leak. Charmer, amirite? Because of today and yesterday, Mrs Blank decided to move ahead with re-arranging their seating charts, so that Craig will be right in front of her.
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