It’s been a minute. Times are busy, both in and outside of work. If you’ve left a comment on some past entries, I apologize for not responding to your questions. I’ll answer them soon.

There’s not been a huge improvement in terms of discipline. It currently feels as though the inmates are running the asylum. It’s shocking to see so many kids walk the halls in between classes, and to see how many kids there are who simply stroll to class even after the bell rings.

The discipline is still a joke. Last week, I had a student who had a wad of tobacco in his mouth, and then proceeded to spit it on my floor; it was one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen and experienced. His discipline? Simply one day out of school suspension.

I’ve cut down on the write-ups. I’ve never been one to really write up kids. I’ll do it at the beginning of the year to make a point, but I tend to ease off and do other things. By the end of the year, you have to do something really obnoxious to get a write up from me.

The classroom management this year is so much better than last. Although the past couple weeks have really tested me. We’ve received some kids from the alternative school who have “re-entered” a normal public school. Some are toxic, others are not. The ones I have are, of course, toxic and are messing up the chemistry in my classes that I have busted my ass off for an entire semester to create. Just yesterday, one of them refused to leave my room after he decided to disturb the class in the middle of testing.

I wish they would’ve arrested him. He’s been nothing but problems since and doesn’t deserve to be here.

I feel like I can teach at any school at this point. Drug dealers, thugs, wannabe thugs, gang members. I can’t even imagine how disturbingly easy it would be to teach at a private school.

If Obama wants to more create jobs, the best idea he could have is to build more boot camps, especially down here in the deep South. Some kids can’t handle normal public schools, some can’t handle alternative schools, some can’t handle prison, so lets build boot camps and see what happens.