October 19th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Tomorrow is going to be a very hard day and I am still preparing for it. I agreed to substitute teach at a local middle school (labeled failing by the MDE). I’ll teach four eighth grade science classes and one seventh grade science class. Then I’ll help facilitate the after school science club.
I went today to see a couple of the eighth grade classes I’ll be teaching tomorrow. It was horrifyingly familiar, just a hair’s width away from the school I taught in my first year in D.C. There were arguments in the classroom, a girl kicked out, a fight in the class across the hall that caused the lesson to be disrupted, people walking in and out of the classroom all during the lesson. Not utter chaos, but pretty damn close.
They’re good kids, though. I’m hoping we’ll have some fun tomorrow.
