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Almost Thanksgiving!

So tomorrow is the last day before Thanksgiving break...

1. I wish we had a short fall break sometime before Thanksgiving break. It's been a pretty long stretch.
2. I am nervous about keeping the kids focused on the day before break. They don't want homework. They want a fun day. They want to do something completely not math related. They are getting a fun day or movie day in some of their other classes so I look like a heartless fun-hater... We're going to have them use white board markers on their desks which should help.


In other news, a student stuffed his face with food when I turned my back when he knows that I have a "No Food" policy in the classroom. (It's also a school rule.)

I sort of talked to him about it, and he made some stupid, invalid excuses. I emailed home. The next day he flipped me off by "scratching his nose" a few times. It was pretty obvious. It doesn't bother me that he doesn't like me, but that was a pretty disrespectful gesture. I emailed home again, and I'm going to have a short meeting with him tomorrow after school. I'm nervous about saying the right thing. If I've accidentally done something to make him feel mistreated or treated unfairly, then I want to know so I can make it right. It's hard to say that someone might be disrespecting you because you somehow disrespected them. It's so much easier to just blame the other person and assume they just have a bad attitude. I'm just hoping that we can get everything out on the table and come to some sort of understanding so that we can more positively finish out the semester.

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