meanmeanteacher

I had jsut posted a long lovely message.. and I got that damn message to short error and it wiped it out! GRRR!!! I gotta remember to copy my messages before tehy disappear....

ok, let me see if I can reconstruct my message...
As a teacher I see bullying all the time-- or rather I hear of it... I know it is happening-- esp with 2 specific children. I have tried sending them to the office, but since I do not "see it" myself, the office claims they can do noehitng, becasue it just a students word against a student;s word... These boys are excessively sneaky-- the second my attention is off of them, they are at it-- but I can't catch them. I have 33 kids to wathc-- my eyes can not be on them at all times. This probably frusterates me more thananything else in teaching.

If my child was being bullied, I would be calling teh school constantly until I knew something happened. It is not fair that some children spend their lives being put down. Some days I wanna smack these 2 boys silly... but all I can do is try to keep the kids I know are being picked on on the otehr side of my room, as far away from tehm as I can. I make them walk in line with me-- I won't let any kids in the bathroom at the same time.. which is a PITA, but they are not going to torture the other children... We line up as an entire class, and I sit there as they go in one at a time, and wait in line with me....

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