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[17 Mar 2011|07:41am] |
Sometimes, Second Grade is hard, y'all.
Yesterday, we had to have a big long talk about bullying and why it's not nice to break other people's pencils, or be mean to them. The thing is that three of the boys in class have been ganging up on a fourth boy, and doing stuff to him to either get him in trouble (the pencils, so he wouldn't have them when they were required. Stealing his books. Taking his lunch money.), or things to downright scare him. They trapped him in a bathroom stall yesterday. The school has a zero tolerance policy on bullying. All three of them have now been removed, and I find myself wondering why I didn't realize before how bad things were. Was I blind to it? Or were they really that stealthy?
I like to think that I'm very careful with my class. That I watch close and try to stop things before they can even begin to happen, but obviously I failed at least one child. He was in school yesterday when we discussed why three boys won't be back in class, and it was almost like watching a weight being lifted off of him. He was relieved. How did I not know that this boy was a different person in my classroom because of three other children? How did I not realize that he was never relaxed? I feel awful.
The thing is, these kids are so young, and a part of me says that it's far too easy to get wrapped up in the idea that they don't understand what they're doing to each other. But they do. Honestly, those three boys knew they were terrorizing the other boy. If it was because they have bad home lives, or because they're just bad kids, or for whatever reason... they knew. And I know that young children should be forgiven their transgressions when possible, but no matter what their age, they pushed things much too far. I'm glad another student saw it and reported it. I'm glad every teacher involved in the investigation (small as the investigation was) was so quick to act. That we all apologized for our parts of allowing this to have happened to this young boy for so long. I'm proud of how we handled it, after the fact.
I just wish I'd been better. That I'd realized before, and taken care of it sooner.
I don't know. Bouncy Kess isn't feeling very Bouncy today. Who wants to go out for drinks tonight?
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