A fish out of water

So this week I took a two day job on Monday and today at Sunset Ridge Middle School. Yesterday wasn't so bad I was just way tired when I came home. Today though, was another story! Today I felt like the kindergartener diguised as a teacher. I couldn't believe how scared I felt. In Fourth period today I marked this girl absent because she wasn't in her seat according to the seating chart.

Well as I'm going down another row I see someone who isn't supposed to be there. I asked her name and I said, 'well you need to move to your seat' she gave me this look like I thought she might rip out my hair. I asked her again and said if she didn't move I was going to mark her absent. She told me to go ahead.

I asked her a third time and she says, 'I ain't movin.' It was the first time I feared for my life while teaching. Someone told me to let it drop because she was in a gang and if I didn't let it go I might regret it.

She left the classroom, but I didn't question where she was going for fear of what she might say or do. I wondered if I were to go back to that class if I ought to take a body guard. Do you think Jake would go?

I now believe I am meant for the lower grades. I thought I had thick skin, but now I'm not so sure.