Thursday, December 8, 2011

Work Crawling Out of the Fence...again!

So these last few weeks have been weeks of seeing my flesh play out horribly in the classroom. I have screamed and lost my cool more times than I care to admit. It seems nothing I try gets results with these kids. I feel like a miserable teacher and to top it all off a parent  came to my assistant principal yesterday with concerns about her child not wanting to come to school. She thankfully referred her back to me, which I appreciate, but the parent has yet to contact me and I only know that about the concerns cause the AP gave me the heads-up. Well, I've tried to contact the mother and her cell apparently, according to her request is not taking INCOMING CALLS! I feel horrible that I can't even do anything to contact the parent and attempt to get this all straightened out. I hate having some conflict that I have the possibility of fixing, and not having the ability to attempt to resolve it. It's nights like these that make it so tremendously difficult to leave work at work. Work is crawling out of it's fence and I feel useless to get it back where it belongs.  Jesus, I need your help cause I'm probably trying too hard to fix this all by myself.

1 comment:

Alex said...

Aww I’m sorry you are feeling that way. I’d pull that kid aside and reassure him/her that you like having him/her in your class and that you heard he/she was unhappy about going to school and see if there is anything you can do to make it better. Maybe it’s another kid being a jerk or maybe they have taken something you’ve said the wrong way. With the other kids, I know its hard but try to just focus on the fact that their experience with you in your class might be their only experience with Jesus during the week and make sure they are seeing the best side of you. If you are frustrated take 10 seconds to yourself and take a deep, calming breath and ask for His help because that’s the only thing that can change those kids.

Kids are punks; don’t let them get to you. Just pray for their soul and your sanity and let Him guide your words, thoughts and actions 