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Date: 07 November 2007 23:21:12
Being a teacher it is inevitable that sometimes you will upset someone. It especially goes with the sorts of topics we cover. I try to remember the different notes or emails we get sent but when you teach approximately 520 pupils a week it gets difficult. Anyway the other week I forgot, we were doing the happy subject of funera1s when, about half way through the lesson, I heard sobbing. I then remembered the note (I don't know the kids at all yet) and thought 'ah yes'. I went and had a quiet talk with her, asked her if she would like some time out of the room, and, when she said no she'd stay, I suggested that she didn't look at the picture of the dead body in the coffin.
At the end of the lesson a boy stayed behind to have a quiet word with me, he had been sitting next to the upset girl. I don't know what I expected but it wasn't 'Miss, Susan was copying loads of my work just then'
Bless him, he is the one responsible for me scaring my next class because I had such a huge grin on my face. There's a boy with his priorities right.