Today I needed to have a discussion with my dear kiddos. Life lessons with Ms. Kinney, if you will.
They were as follows:
1. Don't let me see your cell phones, if I do I will take them and read your text messages. and laugh. Then I will look through all your media and make sure you aren't being a skank. If you are, an awkward conversation is coming your way.
2. Put your facebook on private. I don't want to see pictures of papers I have given back on your wall, even if I did make a funny when I was grading it. I also don't want to read about how much you hate your science project or how much you are bored with school. Also. They have this rating system where they literally rate each other's appearaces and write it on each other's walls! And people wonder why middle schooler's are so emotionally distraught all the time. (for another facebook and my students story, see here)
So at the end of my long lecture on being a reasonable human being and precisely 3 minutes after I finshed lecturing them about how horrible it was to see cell phones and how bad it was if they go off...My phone started ringing...The Circle of Life from the Lion King. Man do I set a good example.
Oh well. They can't take my phone, but I can take theirs.
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