My main task today was to supervise a group of disaffected pupils extracted from French lessons so that they can work with a Law Enforcement officer. A teacher, by law, has to be in with the group. So, I sat there in an official capacity, but wasn't required to particiapte or intervene.
The utter nonsense that came from these children was completely dispiriting. When they weren't bad-mouthing my colleagues, they were regaling Urban Myths and wittering on about so and so in Year 9 who's pregnant and, horror of horrors, going to keep the baby! "Oh my God if that was me, I'd be so embarrassed! My dad would stab me in the head!"
They spent an hour talking all over each other, yelling at each other even though not one of them was more than 6 inches away from another, they talked all over the group Facilitator and were thoroughly unpleasant throughout. Just listening to them was hard work.
I think maybe tomorrow, the group leader would be well served by laying down some group work ground rules before even attempting to achieve what she wants to achieve - maybe that way, I won't have to listen to a lot of ill-informed, self-satisfied, mindless drivel while I'm checking my emails (a task I resorted to as I couldn't concentrate on the Literacy work I had to do). I certainly can't do any serious work with that racket going on.
Alternatively, I could bring my earplugs into school...
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