The Malicious Monocle

      Tonight marked the end of our Classroom Management class. These classes have been really informative and I’m sure will prove to be helpful down the line when I have my own classroom. I have to say I’m still kind of happy the class is over if only because it marks one more class down before the student teaching semester begins. The professor was great and I honestly think I may pick his brain in the future when I need help.

As with his other class sessions we did a role play. The role play concerned the topic of a firearm being brandished in a classroom. The scene was that a student who has been picked on constantly has brought a handgun to school to teach the bully a lesson. I was the student with a gun.

My teacher handed me a toy gun during a break and I put in my belt in the small of my back under my shirt. No one knew  I had the gun on me and when I decided to pull the gun, no one, not even the people sitting next to me realized that I had pulled it until I drew attention to the fact I had a gun in my hand. I think that scared some of the other people in class. It sort of pointed out just how easy it is to sneak a gun into a classroom and how easy it is for someone to start shooting before anyone even knows there’s a shooter. The student role playing the teacher did an excellent job in handling the fact a gun was in her class.

After hearing about the Madison cohort I don’t think my professor would have asked me to be the student with the gun if he had known I’ve been present at a shooting in real life. I’ve also had a gun pointed at me before. I can’t say I wasn’t scared when those things happened, but I’m still here. At least I know I can handle myself with a certain aplomb in a crisis situation.

Don’t Blink!

George Lucas has announced that he is developing a live-action television series set in the Star Wars universe. Yay. He gets another chance to destroy my childhood. No matter what he says, I know the truth. Han shot first.

The angels have the phone box.