Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Lunch Duty
For the next two weeks, during my 30-minute lunch break, I have Lunch Duty. This entails sitting on a chair outside of the boys' bathroom next to the cafeteria. I don't really know what I'm supposed to do there--make sure the boys flush after using the urinals? interrogate passers-by? stare intently at 6th graders?--but we've all been told how important it is that we are at our duty stations.
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Isn't the point to find an additional arena in which to further the strong relational bond you share with your students enabling a greater rapport in the classroom?
Either that or keep those little sixth graders from making out, smoking out or beating each other up. Ah, the joys of sixth grade these days.
-Willis
I would hope that if the goal of Lunch Duty were indeed to promote relational bonding with students, then perhaps having teachers eat lunch with students IN the cafeteria--rather than being assigned to sit beside the bathroom door outside the cafeteria--would be a more appropriate step toward that end.
I know this may be a little anti-establishment, but could you request such a move *GASP* inside the cafeteria? Or are you resigned to a turn playing prevent defense and ensuring a defensible legal position for the school against the myriad of dangers lurking in the boys' room? Or are you perfectly willing to take a mindless turn sitting next to the bathroom for a season?
Seriously, I think that there's still some relational impression to be had on sixth graders and potentially even older students, although those older students would probably require a sense of individualism that most don't have at that stage. Although, to be perfectly honest, I don't know if I would have wanted to sit with my teachers - and I was a nerd.
-Willis the nerd
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