School life so far

In my first week, I invited students to ask me any questions they liked in order to get to know me better. These questions included How old am I? Am I married? Do I have a boyfriend? Are you fat? What is your blood type? What style of man do you like? Do you like giraffes/monsters/ghosts? (my 3rd graders pulling out all the random English vocab words there) Do you want to fight?

And from the “questions we’d like to ask but won’t” file... is watching porn at school acceptable? On my second day in the teachers office (which I share with 2 english teachers and a PE teacher), I turned around to find the PE teacher watching porn! Clearly he’s not fazed by the thought of his co-workers seeing this – perhaps it is acceptable behaviour? (although I doubt it!). I gave him the benefit of the doubt and thought it might have been some sort of video for anatomy/physiology, but after looking 10 minutes later I safely concluded that it was definitely for personal rather than educational purposes!

The naughtiest kid so far has been one of my fifth graders. On the first day he was loud, arrogant and obnoxious with my co-teacher, and I tried really hard to play him down when I was speaking. After my presentation, his question to me as he sat back in his chair with his arms folded and a smirk on his face was “What is my name?”. Fortunately I had a seating plan in front of me which he didn’t know I had – I held his gaze, quickly glanced down at my cheat sheet, back up again and said “Kim Dong Hun”. The entire class burst out laughing at him, his mouth dropped open and he went very quiet. I used my advantage to point the Aspden finger and say “I know exactly who you are and you’d better behave”. He was shell-shocked and didn’t know what else to do but nod. He has been an angel ever since.

Di = 1, Devil Child = 0!