Thank Goodness for Early Dismissal!

I'm back finally! Yes, I have been working all week, and I would have written blogs for the past three days (it's now Saturday despite the date of this post), but blogger was down for 2 nights and the other night I wasn't home until late.

Anyway, now it's time to relieve my horror of a day that was Wednesday!

It started off all right with my arrival to a school that I've only been to once before. The classroom and building was nice, and the class list only had 20 kids on it. However, every adult that spoke to me indicated (very subtly) that this class was not going to be a cake walk. That's fine. I can deal with squirrelly and naughty.

These kids were not squirrelly and naughty.

They were malicious and spiteful and disobedient and uncooperative.

There were only 18 kids there and I swear it felt like 45.

Now, I should say, in most cases of naughty classes, there are about half of the kids that really are good and kind of get overwhelmed by their troublesome classmates. However, there were only 2 or 3 of those kids in this class. The rest sort of just played along with the tide of rudeness.

I had two boys chasing each other around the classroom whenever they got the chance, one boy who only knew the word, "No!", a girl who told me I was wrong and made faces at me when I informed her she was not in charge, another boy who thought directions applied to everyone BUT him, and a whole room full of chatty, disruptive, and snarly 2nd and 3rd graders who seemed to resent everything I said.

The attitudes I got really felt like middle-school stuff. It was scary.

Thankfully, it was an early dismissal day so I got to send them home at 1:45. I really don't think I could have made it until 3. I don't believe I will be returning to this class again!