interesting developments

So after my nightmare day last week, I mentioned that one of my students is getting moved out of my room because of how many difficult kids I have. This afternoon, at the start of 8th period, my vice principal called and said, guess what, it's Christmas. What other student do you want removed? We couldn't have the conversation right then because the name of the student I would have said was sitting in the room, plus I wanted to find out what the deal was.

The woman across the hall, the one who periodically shouts things like "I'm your teacher, you have to respect me" requested that one of her kids be removed, and that child is coming to me. My vice principal said to me that this kid is not really a behavior problem, that it's more of a personality conflict. Essentially, the other teacher yells at her kids (I can hear this across the hall) and has a tendency to escalate problems rather than diffuse them. Not that I am always good at diffusing problems, but my fault tends to be letting problems go on too long, as opposed to yelling too much.

So whenever this girl gets back from suspension, she comes to me. I told Pat I'd choose someone to send to the other teacher by the end of this week. I'm not sure what I think of that, but I know this- the teacher across the hall is going to want to kill me if I give her one of my difficult kids. And that's what Pat said-- basically that he warned her she was not going to want one of my kids, but she was going to get one if she insisted on getting rid of this other kid.

Anyway. We'll see how this goes.