Archive for September 28th, 2010
Every class has one…
my little JP
Back during my internship the supervising teachers would repeat it all the time. “Every class has one”. By “one” they mean disobedient, or stinky, or bad, or whatever you want to call it. They would warm me often that mine would come. They would say that it is inevitable. Now I have my first class. I waited on the first day to watch “the one” come in. I didn’t know what to expect. Would he/she be loud, annoying, ADD, stinky… I thought my “one” had arrived when JP came in and cried the whole first day. But he is in the process of getting student of the month for the first month of school for his first year of school! I thought it would be him, but God has turned my attitude of annoyance into love and he has improved so much. So I’m not sure if it’s just my class, or my year, or my attitude. But my class doesn’t have, you know….”the one”…. I love each of my students and they are all unique. They each have their own challenges, and some have more than others, but none of them stick out in my head as “the one” who causes trouble…and I am very thankful.