Finally!

It seems that, now, at the very end of the year, with ten days left, a certain person is starting to understand that our kids need to be given consequences.

Starting yesterday, our students were put on lock down - meaning that the 7th grade as a whole cannot handle walking through the halls without acting like animals (pretty sure I was able to do so when I was 12) and so they have all of their subjects in the same room all day, the teachers rotate. This was consequence number one.

Now, as I sit in the lounge because my room is occupied, I am watching as several EXTREMELY disrespectful students get sent home. There are a handful of them who are congregating in the hallway (which they have done all year) and they are actually being reprimanded for it. Hopefully this is a good sign, and I pray this will actually continue to be a pattern through the course of next year! Yes, these kids are rough, but we can't just give up and let them rule the hallways - I am A-OKAY with pissing them off and treating them as old as they act - about 3 that is. Send them home! Give them detentions! Make them clean the floors with a toothbrush for gracious-sake! I don't care what it is, but they need to be punished.

Back to the thought of the Harlem Children's Project - I really like the idea of parenting classes - discipline classes in particular. I wouldn't walk into a classroom without having been trained in classroom management, so shouldn't a parent enter parenthood without discipline classes.

I am thankful for having the wild experience of being a teacher because of the benefit of being trained on how to discipline - it works both ways! Teacher to parent, or parent to teacher...oh the joy of discipline.

PLEASE pray for our last 10 days at school...Lord knows it will be a long two weeks.