From my perspective

As I sat in a math class today, this is what I see and hear:

• Students talking about Mexicans taking over everything
• Another student group recalling all kinds of stories from previous years
• Student sitting in the front row, sharpening a pair of scissors that he broke
• As a student leaves the room to go to the bathroom, calls a female student a jerk
• Teacher responds, watch our language after he has left
• Students are still eating parts of their breakfast that the stashed away in desks. Breakfast is over at 8:55, this was at 10:24
• Student refuses to do problem on the board because he has already done two on the board
• Really he wants to continue sleeping in the back of the room
• Teacher later is concerned that he at times has been eating bags of sugar and then will crash from being hyper. 
• Students decide to all gather on one side of the room to have a group conversation. I am pretty sure that I have heard the word stripper at least twice.. 
• Last minute of the class, two thirds of the class walks out of the room. Teacher try's to follow them saying you leave and it's a detention. After the bell rings, he tells the remaining students they can now pack up and leave

You ask, well what was the teacher doing during this whole time. Good question!

He was calling up students one at a time to the board to solve one volume problem and then later to solve a one step equation for class participation points. He was doing this individually to assess students while giving the rest of the class nothing to do.

Math class round 2 - cause we didn't have enough fun the first time.

• I walk into class with the class upset - because their warm up was having to write 21 times that they would not throw things in the room. 
• Why? Apparently several students were throwing things yesterday in class so this is how we handle it. 
• At the same time he is passing out detentions from yesterday. Further making students mad
• I'm called rude because nobody is listening and I am trying to keep the class quiet. Keep in mind they are yelling at teacher not allowing him to explain anything. 

Other things that I have heard from this class:

Oh good, I was just calling you. I was calling you to let you know that A has a headache. Good to know.
Later asks, well should I send him to the nurse? Well, that's your call.  This is a child who is normally very active, almost passed out at his desk.

Not that we have been at a level 0 (no talking) but I will let you go to a level 1 or 1 and a half during this next exercise. (Start again calling one student up to the board at a time)

Was told at 5:20 that one of my students was in a near fight at the end of the day... wanted me to do something about it. Umm the child has already gone home. Not much I can do now.

If that wasn't enough...

Had my teaching credentials questioned yesterday by a 7th grader. She didn't think I was a teacher because I'm not in the room all the time. All the gen ed teacher said was, yeah we co-teach. Thanks for standing up for me. Appreciate it

Same class, had a student look me dead in the eye and say why don't you take those students out, they are your students. Thanks but I teach all kids. Nothing from the gen ed teacher

We have an event tonight that I will miss. Students have been running wild in the building sense dismissal. Glad to know there is supervision :)