Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Working for peanuts

I started working part time for our school district before the holidays. When break was over I did not think I would get called much and was a bit happy about it. The night before the kid's went back I got a call that they needed an aid for where the Kid's who get in trouble go. This was not just a sub position, this would be every day. I said I would try it out. Well it has been one interesting week. I deal with middle schoolers in the morning and high schoolers in the afternoon. At first I thought this may be very rewarding helping these kids get back on track and back to regular school. This pretty much went out the window after the first day. Two of the kid's slept the entire morning. The Principle has said to just let them sleep so they are not disruptive. There are sexual assault charges pending, battery against a teacher, firearms violations, GPS ankle bracelets, parole officers and many other interesting topics of conversation happening. I am not sure if this is something I can do for the long haul but I am getting wierdly used to it and if I didn't know what these kid's have done I would have never guessed it.
If I start posting video of some new rap star or  sprinkling my writing with "Yo Cuz" please let me know I will quit immediately.

2 comments:

Laura said...

sounds like a wonderful job!

Elizabeth said...

watch out for tear tattoos -- I think that means they've killed someone

sounds like you're on the way to becoming an assistant principal, in charge of discipline