Room 22 (clink clink)

The clink clink is supposed to be the sound on Law and Order (c'mon, you know what I am talking about!) As I have said before, Room 22 is the time out room, which I sort of think is pointless. Why send a girl out of class, when that is what they want and you redirect them, they start doing work. Well this blog begins, with 5th period today. I now have 5 kids in that period (and my boss said that one of our kids is equal to 4 kids with behavior problems in a "regular" school). Anyway, the students know my rules and that I don't send people to Rm. 22. Each day the girls also have a point sheet that they carry from class to class. Each point sheet has boxes on it for positive or negative checks.
I think until today, the most checks I have given one student is three. Today, this one student would not follow the directions, after many redirects and many choices given by me. I have to say that choices usually end up being what I want them to do, but in a way that they think it is what they want to do (so it is a win-win situation). So after 3 checks in the not following directions category and many redirects, this student would not do her work and she was affecting the performance of other students in the class. I did the thing that I said I wouldn't do, I called for a Rm. 22. (I know you are in shock right now).
Now I know why other teachers send the girls to Rm. 22 so much, it makes everything easier. But if I wanted an easy job, I wouldn't have 1. become a teacher and 2. become a missionary.

This weekend I watched The Inconvenient Truth, about Global Warming, it was a very compelling movie. I recommend it for everyone. It wasn't very partisan either, it was just straight facts. An interesting fact is that if the glaciers, the western part of Antarctica or the same amount of Greenland melts like the scientist say then my house in Corpus would be ocean front property. I think that sustainability may become one of my top "things" now. Now I just have to find somewhere that needs my help. This coming Saturday, the Claremont Theological Seminary is showing The Ground Truth, which is about Iraq war veterans that oppose the war. This is a very partisan movie, but it should be interesting.

And now for something lighter. Today I made orange juice, but I don't have a pitcher. So I improvised, much like cutting my kitchen door open. I had a fruit juice container that was empty and finally got the juice out of the carton and into the juice bottle. Not that amusing, but I felt good that I could make something healthy and improvise!

Grace and Peace!