Class of '05 
Oh my gosh, the most annoying thing of all is when kids are silent. I'd much rather have a rowdy class. It's impossible to teach them. Our instruction lies in repetition and their repeating after the teacher.

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The parents; yes, they have to leave the room- but then they stare like hawks for two hours. They can't even hear what he's saying but just want to see him move. Then in the break they bawl at the kid if he hasn't been talking enough or was slouching.

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What they really really love is board games, like snakes and ladders or tic tac toe, a game which they have to compete against eachother in. In Dave's class (Goodman Smith) they're pretty much hyper, in my class I don't want them going crazy. The classes aren't that big. There's like 3 kids. I think it's more difficult to play really active Simon says games where the energy comes from those playing with you. 

Some of the kids in my Lions and Tigers class have more going on upstairs than my A+ class, which consists of twelve and thirteen year olds- who are older. I once had this girl who went into a trance in class because she couldn't get the right answer. She wasn't crying she was justly seriously having a fit. I said, ok, let's take a break. I don't know. It was kind of like....odd. And oh my gosh, the biggest pet peeve I have about those classrooms is that the chairs are horrible. Every single class three or four children fall off their chairs. They don't really hurt themselves.

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