I wondered just how horrible this new school year could be when on the very first day I had to step in between two kids in my class to break up an impending fight. Two Year 9 boys intent on not even letting me put them into a seating plan, less than five minutes into the class and even before they had a chance to sit down. And as I see one kid turn around and grab the other one by the cuff of his shirt, I am thinking WHAT THE FUCKING HELL ARE YOU DOING ARE YOU PEOPLE IMBECILES to which one could reply YES THEY ARE but I did the professional thing and stepped in between them by the time they were throwing C-bombs in each other’s direction and calmly said DUH YOU CAN BOTH LEAVE MY ROOM BUT IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. It was so unexpected that the kids who would normally be ridiculously over-stimulated by such unscheduled activities would never be able to focus on classwork, but we all got down to work.
And I thought to myself, how the hell is the rest of the year, full of four separate Year 9 classes, going to pan out?
