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I started working a summer job teaching summer school at a group home for wayward children. My first day was Tuesday. The students did well. Then yesterday two girls didn't want to come into the classroom. One got sent back to her unit. The other had an attitude but did fine. Today, the same student that got sent back to the unit on yesterday decided she wanted to test me again by putting her foot up on the desk and not putting it down. Ugh, she was sent back. The girls were doing well then 20 mins before the end of the lesson one girl decided she wanted to get an attitude about the lesson I was teaching and she didn't want to complete it. So I just let her sit quietly and doodle. I then began to pick up the loose papers around the classroom and I picked up her assignment that she said she wasn't going to complete. She decided that I was wrong for picking it up and started talking about going back to the unit. Then she just walks out, talking about how I took her work. WHAT? She wasn't even doing her work. She was doodling on a piece of paper and I let her doodle, but because I picked up the work she wasn't going to do in the first place I was wrong and needed to be cussed out. Man, I need to pray and pray and pray before I teach these girls. I've been told they have some major mental issues, but I dismissed it, but I guess i'm realizing it now.

Labels: mental issues, prayer

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