Tears and Rage at Dance Rehearsal

 Well, dance rehearsal last period did not go so well. My organisational skills could not defeat the allure of jumping on table tennis tables and randomly pulling the stage curtains open and shut.

After about 10 minutes of half the class doing their best 'lunatic monkey' impersonations, I was yelling at them and dragging them back to class to write notes. I have a small amount of tolerance for loud obnoxious behaviour especially when it may lead to the breaking of school equipment and my getting in trouble.

The students quickly settled down and were quiet when I offered that they could return to practice after they had copied down my one page guide on formal writing. They complied and were able to return.

However, annoying student X was really insulting to some of the other students when we started again. I told him to either participate and be supportive or sit down on a chair and shut up. He kept on being rude and obnoxious and had to be referred out of class. Rather than leave quietly and go where he was supposed to, annoying student X decided some histrionics were required. He threw a chair down on the ground enraged and screamed at me as he ran out the door, "I HATE YOU! YOU'RE NOT MY MUM!"

Either it is the most cutting insult he could think of or he was trying to demonstrate that whilst he struggles with English, he has grasped some of the basics of biology.