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Urban Educ8r: A Wickerblog
This weblog is dedicated primarily to the discussion of Education issues and policies, as well as to chronicling the author's experiences as an inner-city school teacher. These days, the education discussion is too much in the hands of ignorant politicians merely doing what they need to gain re-election, and not enough in the hands of knowledgable professionals with first hand experience.
        

Monday, September 22, 2003

Today

The art teacher across the hall from me has a hard time getting control of her classroom. She's a bit reticent, and the kids take advantage of this in a big way. Today, not the first time this year, a huge shouting fight between students erupted. The last one I think resulted in a physical fight. The thing is this kind of thing happens somewhat regularly. I think she's just afraid to really take a stand against the offenders. Her classroom is a regular place for class-cutters to take refuge and socialize. Many students' education is being disrupted. It's a shame. A similar situation exists in the room next door to me, which is unfortunately only separated by a removable wall. I can hear everything that goes on in there: kids being loud, the teacher (and her high-pitched somewhat annoying voice) trying to be heard over them. Her empty threats to fail them if they don't quiet down and work. A couple shouting matches have occurred in there over the last few years as well. When we are testing I've had to go over and ask the class to be quiet that day. Ironically, the teacher is the one who is loudest and doesn't realize it. My voice probabaly carries pretty well too, though, so I shouldn't really complain.


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