Thick as Thieves
So Hyun and Dino are two of my older students who tend to cause a little trouble. Hyun is taller than the other students and it looks like he his puberty about a year ahead of the rest of the class. Dino is about a foot shorter than everyone else but a pretty smart kid. So last week I walk into class and I ask "where's Dino"? The class starts joking that he's sleeping on the bus. So I begin our daily test and we're just about finished when Dino wanders into class all sleepy and sullen. Of course the class erupts. It turns out he really was sleeping on the bus and Hyun told everybody to leave him and sneak away! Twenty minutes later Dino wakes up to an empty bus. While I couldn't stop laughing I suggested that Dino needed to upgrade the quality of his friends.
Violence in School
These are all elementary students but they can really give it to each other. So yesterday David is really giving out to Anna across the classroom. I have to admit in these conflicts I always tend to feel more sympathy for the girls because guys should be able to take it. So she finally get up after looking at me, walks around the classroom, maintaining eye contact with me the whole time to see how I'll respond. Finally walks behind the boy and slugs him for all she's worth in the shoulder. I decided that this was justice and asked Anna to have a seat so we could begin class.
