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Greenville, SC
I am a second year teacher originally from Augusta, GA. I just got married in July and my husband and I LOVE Greenville. This blog is to provide connections between my students and their parents.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

The "P" Story

I was thinking about what story should start off our blog. It only took about 5 seconds before I remembered the story that started this blog idea in the first place.  It was only the 2nd or 3rd week of school and I was sucking up car line duty outside.  I was with about three other teachers but we were spread out across our terribly designed campus.  I looked to my right and saw students gathering in a circle. I immediately thought and was listening for "FIGHT!" Now 3 months in I have learned this means 1 of 2 things...fight or someone is having a mental/emotional breakdown. Thankfully it was the second.  I recognized the hysterical 5th grader (we'll call him Robby) but didn't know his name yet.  I managed to break through the crowd and shoo them away to ask Robby what was wrong. I definitely had no idea that that one question would lead to possibly one of our top 5 stories of the year. 

Me: "What's wrong honey?" 
Robby: (HYSTERICAL) "sldk gsksgnowein sdogskdfnwoeks sdokfhoww"
Me: "Ok, ok, I can't understand you until you calm down. Breath and tell me what's wrong."
Robby: (Deep breath) "???? was making fun of me."
ME: "Who was making fun of you and what for?"
Robby: "Mike (?) was making fun of me. He said I have a small penis (ME: jaw begins to drop and threats of what you are NOT allowed to say as female teacher start flashing in my head. Then he made me loose it..) 

"...and I DO but...."

Thank God I had sunglasses on so the child could not see the laughter in my eyes. I felt so bad for him until he said after a long pause "...and I DO BUT.." It took all my strength not to laugh in Robby's face.  

Me: "You know honey sometimes...." (Scanning for MALE teacher)
Attempt 2: "Boys just...." (Again, scanning for a MALE angel to rescue me)
Attempt 3: "At your age boys....." (now realizing I could end up saying something real inappropriate and could get fired)
Attempt 4: "Sometimes boys....okay let's just walk this way"

After failing to calm the child down and find a male teacher to handle this situation I began to walk him to the office. I ended up passing him off to one our high school coaches who looked at me with a "you've got to be kidding" face. Thankfully (after laughing in Robby's face when he told him what he told me) he was able to calm him down. I hope this story reads as funny as it was in reality but pauses and tone are hard to type out. Anyways, many more to come. 

Have a great week!
 Love - those who are ever thankful for no school on Tuesday (GO VOTE!)

FINALLY a BLOG!

Welcome to our first year teachers blog! We have talked about this for the past 3 months and it is finally here. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" is a great movie and reminds me of my students so I decided to use it as our blog name. We have hilarious, frustrating, and creative stories from our students on a daily basis so we wanted somewhere to put them before we begin to forget. Luckily, we work in a school with other first year teachers so we'll have plenty to share and to vent about. No student teacher, professor, family member, or friend can prepare you for your first year teaching, or just being a grown up, but thankfully we have each other to lean on. Here is our reality...

We = 
me, Erin Boland - 6th grade English 
Ms. Brown
Ms. Wham - K-5
Ms. Sox - 5th grade English 
Ms. Hsu - 4th grade 
Ms. Bennett - 2nd grade