A punch in the nose

Okay…so i´m going to try and keep this story as short as I can…

Friday first thing I do in the morning is take 3rd B to chapel. Well I am on my way to the classroom and the first thing I see is Steven running out of the class with a bloody nose. I mean blood was going everywhere. He was crying and I was trying to calm him down and keep his head up. Emily was on her way to her 4th grade class when she saw me and immediately said ¨what can I do¨…all my kids were yelling about Jorge hitting Steven in the nose so I just said ¨someone needs to find Jorge¨. Then next thing I know Greg is there and has Jorge and Miss Claudia and Miss Natalie take Steven. I had to get my kids to chapel…but after I had them settled in the church I went to check on Steven. He was doing fine and was back in class later that morning. It just made me so sad that they could do that to each other.

This is where the craziness of the day comes in…some how counsellors of the school decided not to suspend Jorge. You have no idea how angry this made all the teachers. Miss Graciela (the homeroom 3rd grade teacher) was chewing them out about it by the time Greg and I got there to talk about it. We were pretty much blown off and told that well since Steven was hitting Jorge with a paintbrush they were not going to suspend him. I was so angry and told her that by them not suspending him it is showing all my students that it is okay to behave like that in the class. That it is okay to punch someone in the nose cause there will be no consequences. This is why my class room has been so insane! The students here are not afraid of anything because no one follows through with what they say!

Greg and I were so frustrated so we decided to go straight to Principle Trundle. We told him the whole ordeal and I told him how disappointed I am with this especially because I had just come to him on Wednesday and talked to him about getting counsellor support and needing them to help me out by cracking down on my kids and having some consequences for their actions because as it is now they are not afraid of anything and my class has been out of control and it makes it impossible to teach. And he had told me that we would talk with Denis and we would get this problem fixed…and now two days later one of my students punches someone in the nose and there are no consequences. Greg told Trundle that this should not even be an issue because the school has the policy that fighting means suspension…but that’s the problem! This school does not follow through with anything they say! These kids are allowed to run wild and do whatever they want!

All of us are having trouble with this. And I don’t just mean the missionaries. It’s a whole school issue. Tomorrow I am going to Principle Trundle and asking him when we can have a meeting. Us missionaries have decided to sit down with him and go over the issues we are each having and then we want to ask for a meeting with him and the counsellors and see if we can get some support in the area of discipline.

Please keep us, our students, and the Maranatha School in your prayers.