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Home : 2002 : Mar : 27
principals getting mad
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Lisa, I feel your pain. I have two different classes of fifth graders I teach, and one (the low class) is so wild! I am new, so I still have a lot of room for improvement. I know the other fifth grade teachers (who also deal with this class) have a hard time with them, but still have better control. One is a man who has that authoritative male voice. (I was once told that when a man yells, he sounds in control, and when a woman yells, she sounds frantic.) The other teacher is female, but is very cruel with her students (others agree). I didn't want to be a jerk, but sometimes I feel very pressured to just start screaming because that seems to work. (And yes, I know there are problems associated with this.) Today I did yell because the principal was very critical of my classroom management, so I felt like rather than have him possibly enter into a class of chatty kids, I would have to break out the "big guns." I think it's really unfair that principals like yours do not support the occasional loss of patience that results in yelling. The main few times when I have just really had to raise my voice were when the kids were just so wired that we couldn't get through some basic task, like getting ready to go home. Situations like yours (and many that I'm sure a lot of us have had) are exactly why new teachers feel such a lack of support. The principals bark at us about having classes under control, and yet then they don't support our behavioral decisions. Like you, I end up feeling like sometimes I can't win.
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