Today, I came in and before school began my cooperating teacher asked me if I call Sonya my wife what does she call me, her husband? She asked if that was an inappropriate or dumb question. I said yes kind of but explained to her its no different. We are both women and married to each other.
Today I delivered two lessons, one for 7th grade, another for kindergarten.
The last class of the day seems to be the class that says homophobic slurs on a regular basis. As the students were sitting down I heard one student (male) pick on another by calling him gay. He didn't say he was gay, he made a stab at him insinuating that he was. He said it by saying other words, like accusing him of wanting to be with a guy. Then they went back and forth and said well maybe you really are gay. I was at the next table. Since we discussed how to handle these things last night, my cooperating teacher and I just looked at each other when it was happening and since she was closer she said something to them briefly about being appropriate.
Later the same group said something about being homo or referring to someone as homosexual. Then they brought up fag and a bundle of sticks.
Homophobic Slurs so far = 9
A friend I have in the school came up to see how things were going at some point in the day. I was busy with the kindergarten lesson. She asked me how it was going so far. I told her I was doing a lesson and it went well. She informed me that she's heard a lot of conversations people at the school have been having about my car and wanted to know if the vice principal had said anything to me about it yet. I told her no. She seemed interested in seeing if they were going to, and let me know she'd let me know what she's been hearing later.
I have only parked in the parking lot once. It's just closer to park on the street in front. I don't really park right in the front of the building but a few cars, short walk away. It's interesting to think about all these things. I think my last week or second to last week I may present to the 8th graders about fagbug and share my story with them. I think they'd get a lot from it.
My 7th grade lesson went well. My kindergarten one went well I just have a lot to learn about how to manage a group of kids that age. It doesn't come naturally for me which is why I wanted to try it out first. My cooperating teacher is giving me a lot of tips and constructive feedback. I think I have a lot of room to grow and get better at working with them. She's going to help me next time with the clean-up part of it and then the next kindergarten class we have I can try the lesson out again myself.
I sent the teacher my film and she watched it over the weekend.
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