School

Today, as I was almost knocked over by a heard of middle school boys charging down the hall, I realized that at one time I would not have considered this to be a normal 'school' behavior. Things that once seemed so foreign have now become part of my daily routine.

On a regular basis I will see:
1. Students running at full speed in the hall.
2. Students wrestling to the point of physical injury in my classroom before class starts.
3. Students with expensive cell phones texting each other while I'm teaching.
4. Students completely asleep in my class and having no problem going back to sleep once I've reprimanded them.
5. Students talking at full volume while I'm teaching.
6.Teachers tugging on students' ears as a form of punishment.
7. Boys poking each other in (up) the bum.*
8. Students bowing to me in the hall.

Canadian schools are going to seem so foreign when I come home. It will either be a pleasent surprise or I'm going to be fired because I made a student stand and face a wall with his arms above his head in order to punish him.


*No joke. Kelly broke up a fist fight on her first day of school because of this.