Random School Moments #1.

One day a girl got in trouble and had to come to the office. I'm gonna call her "girl 1." The story was that the night before she sent another girl a threatening text message. The text message said that girl 2 better be ready because not only was girl 1 going to fight her, but that was the day both of them were gonna get kicked out of summer school. Girl 2 brought this to the attention of the school. Girl 1claimed the other girl threatened her and it was girl 2's fault. The administration had read the text messages and knew exactly what was said. There were no threats from girl 2, but there were blatant and obvious threats from girl 1 who already had a past history of getting in trouble. The summer school program is more strict then the regular year and she was going to be removed from the program.

When her mother arrived, she was upset, which is understandable. She argued against the decision, but the rules were clear on the situation. The mother brought up a point which only made the situation worse. She asked how the school even knew it was really girl 1. The number that the threatening texts came from was the emergency contact number listed in the school information. The texts actually came from the mothers cell phone. At that point there was not much to argue against that. The girl was removed from the program and the school found out that girl 2 was not the only girl to receive threatening messages that night. The school avoided multiple problems by reacting the way they did.

That is a picture of some of the teachers messing around at the Ole Miss golf course driving range after work one day. I enjoy sometimes hanging out with the teachers, who are only a couple of years older then me. One day I sat in on a "role play" which is one method of preparing teachers in the Mississippi Teachers Corps (MTC) for extreme situations. A "role play" is when after school a bunch of teachers sit in a room pretending to be students while one of them plays the teacher. Teachers who graduated MTC and are involved in training them or "Team Teachers" plan disturbances that the teacher in front has no idea about. While the teacher is teaching, something happens and the teacher is graded on their reaction in a couple of categories afterwards.

This was an interesting, less formal, and even fun exercise. A couple of situations was brought up during the role play I sat in on. There was a girl fight, immature noise making, a rowdy parent coming to the class, and more. I even got involved in one where we were going to the cafeteria for lunch and I was hit in the head by, and ended up chasing after one of the Team teachers down the hallway. It gives the teachers pretending to be students a chance to loosen up after classes are over and learn how to deal with situations that may come up later. It was very interesting.

These were some random school moments that caught my attention. Ill be sure to add more on here later. I decided to end this blog post with my favorite picture done by a student so far.