Driven Insane by a Second Grader

Insane? You think I'm exaggerating for effect? No, and here is the proof of the level of insanity that I reached today. I had two identical twin girls in my class today. The insane part? I didn't realize that I had there were twins in my class until I was dismissing students at the end of the day. I did think that one girl seemed to be moving around the class very fast, but I never came any closer to deducing that there were twins in my class.

So where did my insanity come from? Marcus was his name. A bad tempered little snotmouth, who couldn't sit still without poking and making fun of anyone within ten feet of him. You could tell all the other kids in the class hated him, because everyone had to tell me every single thing he did all morning. I tried to move him, and he would just terrorize different kids. I would catch him in the middle of poking a kid or throwing something, and he would say right to my face that he didn't do it. And every time I said anything to him he would just become belligerent and rude about it.

I sent him to the school's discipline office. Usually that settles a kid down for the rest of the day. It didn't settle Marcus down, he just came back more belligerent and wanting to argue with me. So for my first time ever as a sub, I sent a kid to the discipline office for a second time. Mainly because I didn't want to look at or hear the kid the rest of the day.

The bad thing is, when you focus so much energy on a single student, all the other students decide to act up because they aren't getting any attention from the teacher. So things went chaotic very fast. When I stop to think about it, the whole situation is very sad. Too many kids starved for attention and they will get it anyway that they can.