Relationships

These have been a challenging few weeks. There is one student that has overstepped the mark many times, and has now begun to touch me on the shoulder and once on the waist.

He is out of line. He has been pulled up and upon discussion apologised and laughed it off. I let him go back into class and when he went back into the class he made a massive joke of it all and tried to belittle my warning in front of the other students.

He was warned that if he touches me again, he will be sent out. HIs attitude did not change as he came in only 2 lessons later and touched me on the shoulder. I then gave him a blue slip (send out of class slip) and he went nato. He asked me if I was joking, started to swear and call me an emotional bitch or something to that effect. He then told me this was all a fucking joke and left the classroom loudly by smashing tables, throwing a chair, slamming doors and throwing his folder across the room.

This student was removed from my class and has not acknolwdged me since. What I find hard now is that I am on edge and over sensitve to when a student does something out of the norm.

Over the school holidays a student of the same age group gave me a piece of chocolate as a thank you for coming in over the school holidays and doing workshops. This was a lovely gesture of course but it immediately made me question his motivations. This of course was only a kind gesture, and I need to not let the taint of one students actions cloud my vision.

I am very wary now of all that can contribute to students and their actions, and I need to be harder and probably less friendly - it is difficult when it is against my nature.

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