Becoming A Regular Thing

So I don't know if you remember the student who came during the last 2 weeks of school last year and landed on my caseload. I called him Greg? He's a kid with lots of issues, but the biggest one is he has a temper and has difficulty regulating himself, especially when he feels like others aren't following the rules. Of course this then turns into him losing it, cursing, and doing stupid shit. He's supposed to work at removing himself BEFORE he loses control and coming to talk it out with me but so far, that hasn't been successful. He comes to me but it's always after the fact. And of course I only get half the story which is then skewed to make it seem as though he did nothing wrong. For instance, yesterday, during his GI, he was apparently trying to do work. He was having trouble concentrating, however, because there was a girl in there who, according to him, wouldn't shut up. He asked her "nicely" if she could stop talking (sure) and when she said no, he went off on her. When he was telling me the story, he explained how pissed he got when she called him "Doritos Boy" (he was wearing a Doritos shirt) when she "knew his name". I said to him, "Are you really upset about that?" He answered with, "How would she like if I called her Lesbo Girl!?" I calmly said, "Well that would be inappropriate. And rude? Did she have a "lesbo" shirt on? Because if not, that's not the same." Shit ass. I wanted to say to him, "Don't be a shit ass!" Why can't I say that? 

Anyway, the moral of this story is that this kid needs to get it together. I can't have him coming down to me several times a day (it was twice Friday and once yesterday). I'm hoping that as we talk through these things he'll be able to make better decisions and maybe start seeing that he's part of the problem. One big issue yesterday was that in the class where this happened, his teacher was out and there was a sub. There should have been a note on her plans to explain his stuff but there wasn't. I've remedied that and hopefully as time goes on, he'll start behaving like a normal human being. And stop being a shit ass.

In other news, the weather is still glorious. It's so nice to be able to turn off the AC. It seems like I wasn't able to do that all summer. Can't wait to come home and swim today! 

We started reading Othello yesterday and in both my classes, there's one kid (autistic) who really put a LOT of inflection into their part. I love it. In 6th period, one girl asked, "Can we act it out?" I said, "You mean with your reading? Absolutely! It's much better when you don't sound like a robot." And believe you me, she gave it her all. It induced a few giggles at first but in the end, it seemed to cause others to produce more lively reading.

Dinner tonight: I'll probably do sausage patties with corn and tots. I need to make the corn on the cob I have and the hamburger thins. I loves me some sausage patties. 

Oh, I just remembered I dreamt of Zeke last night. He was sleeping in my lap. What a nice dream. I miss that sweet boy! 

K - time to get a move on. Happy Tuesday. Later!