Wednesday Morning:
Kajuan asks if he can talk to me in the hall for a minute. I tell the class to pass in their homework and Kajuan and I step outside. He shows me the hickey on his neck and tells me he needs to put Vaseline on it every hour. I launch into my now-perfected you're not ready for this you could get a girl pregnant you have all the time in the world ahead of you don't rush things speech (I've been giving it for 3 years now). All of a sudden a bunch of kids in the classroom start screaming and jumping out of their seats. Asia has spilled glitter everywhere, and they're a bunch of little drama queens. I'm about to go yell at everyone to sit down when my autistic student jumps out of his seat with his hands over his ears yelling, "Everyone's fighting!" over and over and runs out of the classroom.
This all happened in the first 10 minutes of school. This is what work is going to be like now.
Kajuan asks if he can talk to me in the hall for a minute. I tell the class to pass in their homework and Kajuan and I step outside. He shows me the hickey on his neck and tells me he needs to put Vaseline on it every hour. I launch into my now-perfected you're not ready for this you could get a girl pregnant you have all the time in the world ahead of you don't rush things speech (I've been giving it for 3 years now). All of a sudden a bunch of kids in the classroom start screaming and jumping out of their seats. Asia has spilled glitter everywhere, and they're a bunch of little drama queens. I'm about to go yell at everyone to sit down when my autistic student jumps out of his seat with his hands over his ears yelling, "Everyone's fighting!" over and over and runs out of the classroom.
This all happened in the first 10 minutes of school. This is what work is going to be like now.
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