I Would Rather Do Second Grade Math than Sixth Grade
When I subbed at the middle school last week, I was asked to fill in for the aide who works with youth who have detention or in-school suspension (ISS) as they call it. When I arrived for her shift I saw a youth waiting in the room. I made a comment about it when I went to sign in but thought that he was just there for homework support. I didn’t know he had reacted to a situation (someone had been teasing him – bullying him) and got physical. It just so happened that the dean of students saw him and wrote him up. Nothing happened to the youth who had provoked whatever it was. He waited at the table with questions regarding his homework in math. Oh, no! I have been helping out with regrouping in second-grade math. The sixth graders more complex pr...