Hello all. Thank you for the birthday wishes. So much has been going on both good and bad. Let’s get the bad over with and end on a positive note.
The bad: My violent student has turned my classroom upside down. He only sits down to eat. Otherwise he’s pacing around my room threatening my students and myself. He is frighteningly aggressive and destructive. I have to keep everything on high shelves to protect the beautiful materials that I have bought with my own money, from him. He’s already destroyed some expensive items. My students are suffering because they are not safe and we must evacuate the classroom often. In the effort to protect them, I have had to block them and he’s punched and kicked me leaving bruises. Their instruction is constantly interrupted by his outrageous behavior, and the play centers are very limited. I can’t set up anything elaborate because he will destroy it. He was pounding so hard on my promethian board on Friday that I thought it was going to fall off of the wall. We have had two PPT meetings and all they tell me is: “collect more data.” I have enough to publish a book. The other day, a woman from Rhode Island was killed by a kid who kicked her in the chest. Houston, we have a problem.
The good: DD’s boyfriend arrived from London on October 1st. HE IS DIVINE. The day after he arrived, he cooked me a roast beef with Yorkshire Pudding for my birthday. We talked and laughed the entire day and evening. They went to Cape Cod for a romantic weekend and the following week consisted of preparing for their friends’ wedding. DD was their maid of honor and he was their best man. We had a wonderful time at the wedding. He stayed with us for two weeks, and when he had to leave, we all cried.
There is no world where it's OK for you and all your other students to be unsafe because of one. I can't understand how admin has not acted yet.
