My Most Horrible Class

I must preface this with a note that all of my classes have been reasonably fine, if a little boring. Do not assume that I have to put up with this everytime I step into a classroom.

Okay, here we go. At the end of the day I was told that this particular Year 11 class is the worst in the entire school. Why they put supply teachers in there knowing this, I can't imagine.

The not so bad stuff:

• Half of the class ignored me.
• They threw rubbish on the floor.
• Two boys refused to come into the room and instead stood in the hallway.
• One boy became quite amorous with his table, but stopped after about 2 minutes.

The bad stuff:

• The entire class waged war on each other using slingshots and paper.
• One student climbed out the back window... he returned (via the window) about 5 minutes later.
• On about 3 occaisions, students simply left the class.
• Two boys made fun by throwing books about the classroom.

The really bad stuff:

• The two boys who wouldn't come in were afraid to do so because they were being physically bullied by two boys in the room.
• One boy set fire to an elasic band, making the room stink, and then complained because the melted rubber burned him. He later set fire to his exercise book.
• When I asked what it would take for me to get these boys to participate in the lesson, I was verbally sexually harrassed.

It was a tough class and all of these things escalated over the period of about 25 minutes before I was able to get some support from another teacher and the head teacher was called over. I will not be going into their class again. It felt as though they had conspired before I had even walked into the classroom to create havoc.

Again, I really want to stress that this is just one experience. Others have been better. I hope that there are not that will be worse.