Well, nothing like starting the day in a grade-level assembly, 300 kids, all in neat rows (to be sure, our team was the best organized, with the kids being recognized in the front for quick and easy access to the stage). Even better when the first time your name is mentioned, as the team leader who will read the award recipients, you are booed by some of your own team's students.
But wait, there's more.
When I am introduced by the prior team leader, there is more booing, the majority from my own students. Granted, the kids in the front receiving honors tried to cheer louder and rally to my defense (which was touching), but to have the assistant principal have to admonish ALL the collected students - then to have the principal keep my team behind to go over the shame etc. - plus having a guest speaker from the board on hand....well, either we have completely disrespectful kids, or they really don't like me, or they figured they could get away with it in a crowded setting, or my discipline methods don't work, or they work well enough to elicit this reaction, or all of the above. Just pick one and move on.
The rest of the day was basically damage control. Pep rally in the afternoon, so we had the kids all write an apology to the whole team - which for just about all of them consisted of "I didn't boo" and a small handful actually apologized. To my knowledge, nobody wrote that they had booed. Just like every situation where a group misbehaves en masse....nobody did it. Anonymity in numbers. Then, if we punish a group, they cry "unfair."
Two more days.
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