I got to break up my first fight at school today, what was interesting because it was two grade sevens and one of them is definitely crazy and will probably end up in prison.  No sign of remorse or compassion in that boy.  It happened in a second with no build up and ended just as fast I pulled one off the top of the other.  The crazy one then threaten me and said his father was going to beat me up.  After that he made several threats to kill the other boy and other threats as well. (Now keep in mind that I'm a sub and have been warned about the student.) I know that the other boy wasn't completely innocent but his actions didn't warrant that reaction. While taking the child to the office he bolted out the door of the school, out into the parking lot of the school. (He had earlier told me his father waits for him after school to drive him home) I didn't follow after him because I didn't want to have his parents see me chasing after him.  Doesn't look very professional and wouldn't make the problem any better.  I continued to the office and wrote the incident up and gave it to the principal. 

After talking to the other teachers I have worked with over the last six months I have come to realise that the teaching profession is in need of a change.  First of all schools are in a crisis right now, not changing them will only make more problems later. I understand the importance of inclusion in the classrooms but it's not for all the students.  The dangerous ones can not be changed and reformed all that is occurring is students don't feel safe in the classrooms, and to top it all off the studnets see nothing happening to the students that act out or are violent.  This changes the perception the students have of there teachers.  We have no way of fixing the problems in the classroom and the good students (ones that want to learn and move on in life) are developing less respect.  You have to be crazy to think you want to work in an environment where you are constantly disrespected and abused verbally and intimidated.  Not a healthy work place and new teachers are not staying around for this and are leaving the profession. Which is creating another problem "no teachers to teach." 

Another thing I have noticed is the students in Newfoundland rural areas which I'm going to generalize but prove me wrong.  With all the out migration the people that have left are the one with an interest in moving forward having a better life.  The ones that are left are either retired, work for the gov, own a business ,or don't care what happens to them or their families.  The last one is the one with the students that are taking over the classrooms.  Education isn't important to them so they don't give a fuck, there for the fun and to hang out.  This may have been a problem before but you had a good mix of students good, weak, bad, don't care.  Now it's the don't care and the are 60 of 70 percent of the class.  You can't teach that, they don't care, you will get some work out of them but for the most part you push them through and let the next teacher deal with them.  When I say push them through I mean you lower the standards for them so that they can pass. In the long run all you are acomplishing is have graduating class of dumbies. The board has decided  that now you can't give a student a 0 on anything.  If the student comes to class during a test and sits there and doesn't want to write the test you can't give him or her a 0.  Not because he/she can't write or read but because he or she just doesn't feel like write a test for you today is there reason.   Guess what! You have to do as a teacher, contact the parents and you know what they say to you.  They don't care, and stop bugging them about there kid, or really to bad for you or no he or she would never do that I don't believe you.  I had one parent tell me that I was calling home because I was picking on her son and being mean and to leave him alone.  If her son wasn't a monster I wouldn't have to call home once a week.  So how do you teach a bunch a students who don't care or want to learn?  Any one want to throw their 2 cents worth in?