Reader Discretion Advised

Between the hours of 11:20am-12:00pm today, Room 12 had a reliever. She will remain nameless. She showed up because Mrs. Auva'a had to meet with the reading specialist for 40 minutes to talk about STAR testing. By law, they have to hire a reliever (even though I am there to take over the class). No big deal, right?

Wrong.

This reliever was Satan.

Really though.

She was AWFUL.

Within the first three minutes she had kids running laps because they were talking.

Now, I was supposed to just have control over the class, but she didn't really like that idea for some reason and decided to manage them herself. She told me that my class was one of the worst in the school so she was going to be strict and manage them from the beginning so they would behave.

Like I said, she had them running laps.

We had buddy reading right at 11:20-11:45. So basically our work was cut out for us. We walked to the Assembly Hall to meet with room 1, and maybe we were a little loud (nothing worse than usual). BUT, it wasn't good enough for miss. So she had them running laps until they didn't talk anymore. The girls ran 6 laps and the boys 4. Poor guys. Any teacher knows that running is never a form of punishment.....

We get inside, quieter than I've ever heard them and she leans over to me and says, "Never tell them they did a great job or they did excellent or they take it as there is no room for improvement." She goes on to yell at them and say it was good, but not great. They should do better next time. They are naughty naughty kids.

We had a jolly time reading, get back to class with about ten minutes to go until Mrs. Auva'a gets back. I was all set up to do maths, but she wanted to do the Samoan reading instead. That's fine. Except for this:

In front of the entire class she yells at Emmanuel "Why are you so slow? Oh that's right, he's special."

WHAT? Are you kidding me? This is ridiculous. And now you are treating my kids like this. MY KIDS! I am so angry at this point....it gets better:

"Stop talking or you'll stand up and be shamed"

Did she really just say that? Who is this lady? Obviously she doesn't like kids/isn't hired for a reason.

She asks a question to the class. One kid squeals as he puts his hand up:

"Stand up, put your hands on your head.....who can tell me why he is standing? Yes, he was talking. Don't talk. Just stand there."

Another kid tries to answer her question of why he is standing.....without his hand raised.

"You! Stand up too. Put your hand on your head. I can't believe this. You boys are naughty. Learn to not talk. Use your brain."

I felt like this was out of some horror movie or something. No wonder all of the kids wrote me love letters after she was gone telling me how much they love that I smile at them and am nice to them.