Students are strange

Today the problems with S. kind of came to a head. It started right away, as soon as second period started. He was sitting down fine and then randomly decided to get up and talk to his friend who he always talks to. I said, S. get back to your seat. Nothing. He didn't turn and look at me, he didn't stop talking, and he certainly didn't go back to his seat. I said that probably about three times with the same results. Which was ineffective obviously.

Later in the period, he announced I'm finished, after he had filled in an entire worksheet and wanted to move on to the second part of class which involved getting a computer. Well, the only problem was that a. students had to get their work checked before moving on and b. I was right next to him and not busy whereas my cooperating teacher was across the room helping other students. So I said ok S, let me see your work and then I'll get you a computer. Yeah fucking right. He was like no I want Mr. Cooperating teacher, I don't have to work with you, go work with other students, etc etc etc. We talked about ten minutes and it was nothing doing, totally disrespectful "get out of my face" and "stop bothering me" all over the place. So finally I said, Mr. Cooperating Teacher, I cannot have this, S. has to go now. He agreed, since he had intervened in all the of day's events to say you need to show her some respect and S. had said no I don't, or some variant of the like.

So I went to get an administrator and I said, look I am just having a really hard time with this student, he refuses to listen to me or work with me, and he's absolutely disrespectful. We decided to have a meeting after the period was over and it was absolutely unhelpful. S. totally insisted that he shouldn't have to work with me and insisted that I had yelled at him. He also flat out lied about what had just happened saying I was insisting that he needed help and that he kept telling me that he didn't need help and that he wasn't finished. I actually said in the meeting, well S. when you called out I'm finished that led me to believe that you were finished. He didn't deny that, but he just kept up with his story. It was bizarre. Students are strange, as I said. The meeting ended when the administrator said we would have to call his mom because his disrespect was getting out of hand and he almost began to cry. It was crazy! I didn't want him to cry. It was weird too, because I can't see how he could have thought that the way he was treating me was o.k, so it couldn't have been unexpected. I would have been totally fine with not calling his mom if he would have just used the meeting to agree to some sort of compromise on working together, but instead he used it to be more hostile and lie! to my face!

Unfortunately, the administrator decided that she would be calling his mom tonight and that hopefully that will turn things around. She said to address any misbehavior one time and then to just let it go unless it's really disruptive to the whole class or something. So I'm going to do that from now on and then she said to let her know how tomorrow goes and if he is still having problems working with me that we could bring his mom in for a meeting. It's so weird to me that adolescents cannot foresee parent teacher conferences for misbehavior. S. was like stunned when his mom's name was mentioned in the conference, even though I said in class to him that if this keeps happening I would be calling his mom. What the hell?

Dear, this post has gotten much longer than I wanted. It's past 9:30, which is my bedtime, since I am an old lady. Hopefully this situation will be resolved tomorrow, but I get a sinking feeling that it wont be. Until then.