the office

i send a lot of kids to the office. never thought i would, and last year i certainly didn't, but it helps create and maintain order. here is an example of what gets kids sent to the office in my class:

7 grade--tallkid* touches smallkids* butt
me: that is inappropriate, don't touch his butt
tallkid: but i'm gay
me: it doesn't matter if you're gay, you don't get to touch people in class
tall kid(pulling boy onto him): but he's my boyfriend
me: i think you're making a joke out of being gay and that's homophobic
whole class yells: we're not homophobic, its ok to be gay, ha ha ha!, ect.

shortkid laughs, tallkid is cradling him. i make them separate. tallkid tries to touch shortkids butt again in a more graphic manner. i bounce tallkid to office, shortkid writes I LOVE GAY PEOPLE on a drawing of a banana, then goes over and stuffs his hand in and out of a yoda doll that was part of a sculpture. i take shortkid to the office, banana picture in hand and present it to the VP.

moral: assualt on star wars figures will not be tolerated.

*if i thought there was any chance in hell these kids were actually gay i would have had a talk with them privately. but they seemed like big jocks, later i found out tallkid has some issues and touching is one of them.