Book Review

I had a student come into my office and he saw my book that I was reading for my book review. He asked me if he could read the book when I finished with it. I printed a copy of my book review off  and gave it to him to read before he read the book. He read the book review and the book. The book was called The Babe and Me by Dan Gutman. Gutman has written about 10 other books that are just like this one. The books are about a young boy who can hold old baseball cards and it takes him back in time and he ends up associating with the player in some way. Our school has a book fair coming up next month and each student is required to read a book and in some way present it. The student who read my book review has decided that he is going to read the book Shoeless Joe Jackson and Me for his project. He was very interested in the book review that i gave him and he has asked me if i would help him do a book review. He should be finished with the book soon so this week he and I are going to create a powerpoint book review just like the one we did. I didn't realize how good of a project this was and that we can use our book reviews to encourage students to read.

An Interesting Day

Last wednesday was a very interesting day. On Monday I had trouble with one of my students. He hates going to pull out so whenever he goes to art, music, library, computer lab, or P.E. he acts up. On Monday he kept disobeying me and i finally made him write sentences. He threw the paper on the floor and told me he wasn't going to write them. I told him that he was either going to write or I was going to write him up. At the time I didn't know that his mother was the one that all of the teachers talk about. On Wednesday morning she was in my office with my principal and her son. She tried to twist the story every way possible to make it look like her son was an angel and i was the one in the wrong. Then i realized she was the one the teachers talk about and I was her third conference this year. She feel like her kid does no wrong and he is always treated unfairly. She began to question my qualifications for the job and told me in front of her kid that i had no clue how to teach and she didn't know how in the world I got a job. I tried to tell her that her son was written up for being disrespectful and I don't tolerate disrespect from any of my students. I told her how ther were almost 40 other students in the class and there was no way i was letting him get away with acting like that towards me. The angry parent then started telling my principal that she couldn't believe that she hires teachers like me and that she has no clue how to run a school system. I couldn't believe that the mother was saying all of this to me and my principal with her kid sitting there. Everytime I looke at the kid he was just smiling and laughing. Luckily my principal took my side because she knows how the kid and mother are. She told the mother that she could either move him to another school, make him do his 3 days in ISS, or keep him at home and let him get 0's on his work. The mother stood up angrily and stated that her kid was not doing 3 days in ISS for somehting that was my fault. The cops had to come to the school and remove the woman. The funny thing is that this woman has been in education for a long time. She was a principal in Greenville, Mississippi which is 20 miles up the road but she was fired and put back in the classroom. I was told that last year she had problems with all 5 of the 3rd grade teachers and filed a complaint on all of them. Well on Thursday morning I recieved a call from the administration building and was asked to come over. The mother had filed a complaint on me and was trying to get the state department involved. My Asst.Sup knew how she was and told me he just wanted to let me know what was going on and he would take care of it.