Don't cha think?

Teachers,

Great week BUT students need to see us follow through on consequences.  I'm talking dress code, classroom disruption and cell phones.  Team Instructors have commented that consequences are not being given and they need to be given.  Detention club is open to all students.

This is an email that we first years received from our principal this July term.  In the past few weeks, we have started a new "term" of summer school in Holly Springs.  This "semester" we have fewer students, and the classroom belongs to us, the first years.  We teach every day, every period, and don't have any second years there to tell us what to do (room 161 at least).  What this means; we are in charge.  As you can tell from the email above, it is overwhelmingly different from the 1st term.  Our (first years) optimism, joined with our inexperience, clearly shows.  Their (second years) frustration, for lack of a better word, and experience is even more clearly visible.  They dealt out detentions and various consequences to disruptive and misbehaved students, while we sat back and reluctantly watched.  Now, we are the figureheads in the classroom, and it seems that all of the stories that we have heard seem real.  "Good classroom management determines everything."   So I guess The Reluctant Disciplinarian was true after all.

Isn't it ironic?