What I didn’t expect was for him to spend the entire class period trash talking me to the student next to him.
I asked him to stop probably 10 times. He said that his parents were pissed, that I was getting in trouble, maybe even fired. That I had said that I, “couldn’t stand to look at him.” That I suggested him to play online roulette. All lies. I let it go because I didn’t want to escalate the situation. Well, at the end of class I called him over to my desk and confronted him about the whole thing. He didn’t say anything as I spoke. Finally I said, “You say I treat you differently than everyone else, but when I try to treat you the same by joking with you, you get angry. I need you to tell me how you want to be treated in the classroom. Do you not want me to joke with you like I do with everyone else?” “No, don’t joke with me,” he said. So I told him okay. After that I reached the breaking point. This kid is the kind of kid who just wants to work the system. Nothing I do works. No matter how I treat him, “I” am always the problem. It’s always wrong. His parents agree with his nonsense. What else could I do? He has problems in all his classes, but the most and worst in mine (mostly because all his friends are in my class). I talked with his mentor and his dean that afternoon and we came up with a solution: I will be trading The Manipulator for a problem child in another teacher’s English 2 class the same period. A problem kid trade/ swap if you will. Hopefully a fresh start for everyone. It bothers me that it has come to this, but I honestly see this kid as a little crazy. He is the kind of kid you can imagine growing up to be a serial murderer that is how manipulative and evil he can be. At this point, I am just glad he will be out of my classroom soon, and that I will get a kid who is a “normal” problem child. Sometimes teaching isn’t fun.
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