I don't really have any stories to bring home today from school, except that a verbal dispute/curse off broke out in 7th period between Eric and Hilda that left her in tears. And when I heard that that Shamik, the kid who tries to get into my class 5th, 7th, and 8th period (he only belongs there in 7th) got slashed in the face tonight during gang conflicts, my heart sank.

I need to remember to pray for these kids.

It’s easy to feel defeated in this field. It’s easy to feel defeated when the students don’t do their homework, when they don’t clean up after themselves, when they don’t even take the worksheets with them after class. When after three days of the same thing, they still do not know how to measure to a 1/16th inch, when they have no concept of subdivision and increments. Who don’t have their own sketchbooks the 4th week of school. And yes, there are those that do. But even they get fed up with those who don’t pay attention and then claim that they have no idea what is going on. And then you have the kids who are sporadically present and have no inkling of anything. How do you work with any of this? How do you build anything if you don’t know how to measure dimensions? How do you draw if you don’t know how to draw angles? It gets tiring doing the same thing over and over.

idoulex
teaching 10th graders how to use rulers :(
Prema: hahaa
aww
me: :(
Prema: gl!
me: it's sad
Prema: hey man if i can relearn alegbra, you can do anything
me: yeah but
why do they not know how to use one?
Prema: how do u mean?
like inches and cms?
me: yeah
inches
the inbetween stuff
1/4, 1/8, 1/16
man
today
we were going over metric vs standard
and i asked
Prema: oh my
me: what unit do we use to measure coke?
Prema: oz
me: and one kid said..
grams
you know why???
Prema: ahhhhhhh
err
sugar?
me: because they were thinking of the other coke
Prema: AHHHHHHH
OMFG
me: and they were like
Prema: that is HILARIOUS
me: you have to say coca cola
AHHHh
PREMA
Prema: oh man
sorryu
but that is crazyyy
me: i can't believe it
Prema: sad that you have to make that distinction
me: i know
oh my goodness
and this was one of the "good" kids