20070522

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Last weekend, one of my students had a finger broken by three girls in my class. The reason of this was that those three girls were playing game and pushed each others in the back of my classroom. Unfortunately, one girl fell and landed on the poor boy’s finger with her knees. Once I noticed that something had happened, it was too late. He cried on his seat and those three girls were saying sorry to him. I knew that those girls didn’t do it on purpose, but I couldn’t stand not to reprimand (scold) them. I told my students that it is vital to keep them selves away from danger at any time because no one could pay back if they become disabled.

Nevertheless, what made me much angrier was that, in this morning, one of those girls was playing and running around the classroom again. Fortunately, nothing bad happened this time. But I still felt very angry and spent almost 30 minutes to discipline them how dangerous it was and what would happened if I hadn’t stopped them from running around the classroom.

It is really a serious problem for elementary teachers because we have responsibilities to keep all students safe. If students were injured at school, their parents would always blame that teachers didn’t take care of their children well. I will try my best to teach and guide my students in the school. But everybody knows, some students never follow rules and it is difficult to control students’ activities during their free time. I think that keeping students safe is the biggest work pressure in my job.