Secret Teacher: when a pupil rules your classroom

terrorized in class and the lack of support from the head,

Master Secret

do not know where to head

arrives late to class every morning. Walk through me as I take the story, I just push a little, enough to make my sheet hand to remind me it's there. Calls to parents who need to be here in time to fall into deaf ears. Dad does not want to talk to me anyway, and my mother nodded gently, but it's like the lights are off and nobody's home. You know she stopped listening to teachers for years.

But his son governs my class. It makes me feel scared, and I am an adult woman. I know what makes other students feel because I can see it in his eyes. They do everything he says. It has the power, as if he were born to it.

I tried all the strategies in the book with him. There were a number of specialists in my class watching him and me. "Do not worry. Simply move. Imagine that is not here." It's like trying to ignore an itch on the sole of the foot and can not be reached.

I made a positive management and I tried not to say anything that can be interpreted as bad or scold. I had flashcards for him a special place for him, his own book that you can write in when he is upset. Not even trust them to go to the bathroom alone - when he left, he made a run for it

He reigns over my class and I growl. It exhausts me. The applause of the whole class on the days that you have a cold and stay home.

want to be included, but it is difficult when you try to teach a good class for eight years and there is not one, just one, who is determined to make life hell for all of us . I just want out. I want him to go. Then I could do what I was born to do and teach - I have my class precious to me and just danced for joy. But I can not. I included. I just keep him here.

• His behavior has not gone unnoticed by his head is a regular visitor to the office of the head. But somehow it always performs better for the head, looks at me and says all the right things about supporting me and gives me more training to deal with, but there's a glint in his eyes, as if to say " Well, Miss, you really need to get a grip on behavior management. You need to get a grip of this child. "
Get a grip - get a life instead. He dwells in each of my thoughts awake. It's just tiny, but I feel physically afraid of him, and even if I had trained to know exactly what to do in case of rope groaned a little, I'm afraid of him.

I had with him having to watch like a hawk, ready to pounce on the poor boy next class. He sneaked to them, gives them a pinch here or a kidney chop hard. He befriends all the children who want the best of a fragile heart disease, children with Down. He is friends with them for a while, then turns on them. They are too afraid of him any time to say on this subject.

The day I empty my room throwing chairs around - just went out the side door, while lost inside - the day I thought it would go safely. Without doubt, this time the head would be able to see what a danger. So maybe I could go back to being a teacher more than an empty shell, and tormented by the gray lines and knots in my stomach perpetual.


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The real me at 18: the personal statements of five public figures | Richard Dawkins, Alan Johnson, Suzanne Moore, Camila Batmanghelidjh and Benjamin Zephaniah

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Sweden makes my gender-free toy Christmas wish come true | Sarah Ditum

with a picture of a girl with a Nerf gun, a toy retailer in Swedish children arm with the ability to challenge gender roles obsolete

"All I want for Christmas is ... every child toy mandatory Gendering all!" Mariah Carey sings. Even if someone could get that many syllables in a musical phrase, Mariah is surely. The person singing this particular affront seasonal pop me, and I was having a girl awful good, because Santa has already given me what I want. Except that instead of being served by a man in the clouds beard round my chimney was visited by the country of Sweden. Nice one!

In 2009, the Swedish equivalent Toy Advertising Standards Authority Top authorized dealer for the production of a catalog that "kept an anachronistic vision of equality" and both sexes showed a "dispensation". So this year, the company has responded to advertisements for all confuse gender bias. Here's a girl ... with a Nerf gun! A child holds a doll ...! A girl ... in a blue shirt! Come patriarchy.

Surprisingly roles for children have become so calcified that such trivial things can be presented as radical. An example included in the Daily Mail: "They Dolls are not just for girls," which of course is based on the voice of your inner UKIP voters shouting: "Yes, the dolls are for girls!" for the reactionary rising sap. Is that the secret postal lesbo signed a matriarchy where children are raised by single mothers? It was cold in the need for parents? It seems unlikely, but if the children can not play in the nursery, and, by extension, we say that they can grow and care for children.

play is how children practice belonging to the world they were born in. Dolls allowing infants tested for the care they give to their children, in their turn, and imagine feelings of their parents - the ability to guess mom and dad are second only to the ability to destroy expensive consumer electronics skills preschool

Many people will try to say that children do not play with dolls. Coincidentally, these same people also speak any guy in your neighborhood that children do not play with dolls. It is innate sexual difference that makes girls and boys play on both sides of the dividing line of blue pink - is constantly impressive adults in their accusations that a group of toys that is fair and the other is bad

• This pressure can be as subtle as the inadvertent "ooh!" applause for a child to choose the "right" toy, or perhaps the audacity of Chicago professor who has students sort toys for boys or girls of a ranking exercise, certainly not eight years old putting most things in the "both" column ("I wish it was not worse," the young father proud, great.)

I was determined to give my child first start a dogma without sex, he was both brilliant and slightly time in three years, opened his Christmas list with a baby stroller (I found a blue coat, of course. gender police have spies everywhere, even inside of me). It helped that I was a student at the time, and my son went to nursery school where most of the other parents were attentive, right speaker to the guys who raised their children in mono and wooden toys .

But even professor reflected on the types do not have television, visiting toy stores and something less serious family and friends as smallpox rose can not be maintained indefinitely. It seemed to go in the space of a week, the room striped shirts and jeans preschool half erupted in princess dresses and tiaras. We, the parents had received a good race, but our kids finally realized that there was more forces wanted to fit a couple of guys.

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Was Will Gompertz right when he said the arts had been subsidised to 'no great effect'?

a report on the BBC Radio 4 Today program said mantra Arts Council England's "great art for everyone" was inaccessible. Is this view too dark

my Twitter feed this morning was very angry, very angry. My colleague Will Gompertz, the BBC's creative director, was at the show today to talk about funding the arts. Although the Arts Council of England's efforts since its creation after the war, he said, funding for the arts was "apparently without much success." In 8% of the population, he said, go to the ballet, opera or classical music, according to government figures. It was subsidized arts, welcomed the report, in fact only supports the tastes of middle and upper classes? You institutions such as the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera failed to draw, but few?

• think - with all due respect and board hat nice, as always, Will - the image presented here was very sad and incomplete. Hence the irritation of my Twitter friends. The implication (but perhaps not the intention) of the piece was to suggest that classical music, opera and ballet "acted as" all the arts. It is, of course, a partial picture . You lose entire sectors of cultural activity. theater, galleries, museums. street theater, carnivals, festivals ... whole swathes of things with the support of public funds. Not to mention the incredible work done in community arts organizations, or companies like Streetwise Opera Clean Break and work with a very social end in sight.
• The report was perhaps too much work rather incomplete at the Royal Opera House. Not for a moment think that his audience on an average night presents a true picture of British society, or that it is a forbidden place in many ways, or no work to do, but you must pay £ 115 to see the ballet, my two seconds, click around randomly tickets site vomited four pounds for a special evening to celebrate the ballet in February (you have to break 'em up in advance) - a sum that had difficulty finding theater tickets in London. ROH gives representations of the family (tickets £ 5 - £ 20). Opportunity to dance is a system that works with schools in Lambeth, Southwark and Thurrock to encourage children - not children of the privileged - access and enjoy ballet. But enough about the Royal Opera House. ROH is not an art in England. It is an art organization in England and should not dominate discussions on funding (I know I do ...).
• "Great art for everyone" - a simplistic slogan Arts Council England, maybe., But I'm not sure anyone should apologize about aspiration. Thanks our schools, through the extraordinary range by arts organizations, through the committed work of artists and teachers do not see why everyone (and this is important for all children) should not be with big art. God knows enough people are doing all they can to get there. And indeed, I think it works.

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