At school today I had four classes in a row in the morning, but the afternoon was free. There was lots of gossip around the office today, but about nothing in particular. Harada sensei had been arguing with some other teachers, and there were some parents coming in to conference with some teachers about their kids.
Luckily, there wasn’t any fallout today from my unzipped incident yesterday. I was worried that the students would be talking and the stories would have spread all over the school.
Our school has a lot of disabled and otherwise challenged students. They take a huge amount of effort from their already-busy homeroom teachers, and not only do they not get the attention that they need, they often distract the other students.
One of these students at my school has been getting into a lot of trouble lately. He makes it his mission to try to get into the staff room, even though right now students are not allowed. He’ll come and ask at the door if he can come in, and he’ll ask every single teacher that he sees hoping for someone to say yes. He is teased by other students in the hallway, and sometimes he just spits on the floor or in his own pencil case.
Most of the parents of these students want them to be in a regular class with regular students, and I can understand why. But it is tough on the teachers and I see them getting stressed out about it every day. I don’t know what the best solution is, but it seems to be the big topic at our school day to day.
