My English teacher asked me one day what was going on because my attendance was poor (and when I was there for a full day, I was usually sleeping). "My senior year of high school I went through a lot of stuff - couch surfing, health issues that made it impossible to show up, unmedicated insomnia, and drug addiction. Thankfully, not all teachers are like that: It was infinitely more embarrassing, and changed my grade from an A to a C."
It won't embarrass me, and I want to pay attention.'Īfter I told her this, she kicked me out of class and made me sit in the hallway every time I fell asleep. You’re more than welcome to wake me up in front of my peers.
If I fall asleep, it's not out of boredom or lack of respect - it’s just the medication. One of my teachers was a literal medical doctor before she started teaching forensic science - I spoke to her on the first day of class and told her: 'This is what I'm taking, and these are the side effects. I was always sleepy, no matter how much I had slept the night before. "In high school I was heavily medicated with prescriptions I never should’ve been prescribed. He worked because his dad was absent, and his mom was a drug addict - he needed money to feed his little brother (as well as himself). It turned out the kid had two jobs, and would start work an hour after school and wouldn't get let out until 2 a.m. A few days later, our teacher wasn't in homeroom with us (as well as the kid). The kid jumped up and fell against the wall the teacher started yelling other students started yelling - it was chaos. Even though a lot of us tried to defend him, one day our teacher took a huge book he brought with him and slammed it down next to the kid's face on his desk. Our teacher was a grade-A jerk, and constantly tried to get this kid to stop sleeping. "There was a fellow student in my homeroom who fell asleep halfway through class every day. She didn't give my glasses back at the end of class, so my math teacher literally had to go to her class and get them back for me." Since I couldn't see the board, I got a zero on the assignment, and she stood there staring at me the whole time. She moved me to the back of the class, and then gave us an assignment where we had to copy answers off the board. She caught me trying to clean a smudge off of my glasses, so she took them away from me. "This reminds me of my sixth-grade English teacher. And since there was only a month left until school was over, it didn’t 'make sense' to move her." I met with the administration, and they told me his teacher was being 'reassigned' after the school year. I only found out because the classroom aid told me. She took him into the hallway and made him sit out there for two hours - he cried the whole time. He started bawling, saying: 'I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you. His teacher waited until all of the kids were back at their desks, approached my son, and started SCREAMING at him. When he was in first grade, he didn't hear the order the teacher gave to the class to clean up and return to their desks. He’s attended the same school since preschool, and they're aware of his limitations. My oldest child has hearing loss, and background noise is the worst for him. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online."It happens more often than you’d think. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are:
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