Those interactions 100% wear you thin. I teach little kids so it's almost entirely that kind of thing. Hats off to the teachers copping actual abuse.

Here's the one that bothered me today. It happens every day but today I'm like Miss Hannigan about it.

We come inside and multiple kids come up to ask what we're doing (the visual timetable gives them the jist) rather than sitting down and shutting up so I can start. It's like swatting at flies. They see one kid in my face so they come up and also ask. They need their pound of flesh. I'm glad they care but they know how it works. I get up and talk some shit and we have some back and forth and then I give them something to do. I never do this 1:1. You get your curiosity fulfilled by sitting the fuck down and being quiet. How don't you know? Why does this happen to me every day and every day I answer the sooner you sit down you'll find out? Imagine we all walked in and sat down I'd start immediately!!

Maybe I need some shit task to give them when they ask. What are we doing? Oh we are cutting out this 100 chart and gluing it back together, here you go, get started. We are circling every letter a in this thesaurus, grab a pencil. We are rewriting my planner in crayon, make it neat.

The one time I don't let anyone approach me will be the time there's been something serious happen in the playground, like a kick to the bits or a big kid being awful to them, and they'll go home and report it and I actually will be a shitty teacher for being unapproachable to a kid in genuine need.