Well, that's another one in the books...most of it was good-the usual annoyances with juveniles, etc. So far, so good...
Unfortunately, we have been dancing a slow waltz toward confrontation with a student that strikes me (not literally) as having profound psychological issues and a pathological inability to control his own behavior. After school today, not long after we had left the building, he attacked another teacher who had asked him to leave the building. The teacher is OK (well, he does have a knot on his head), but a couple of kids who were in the classroom were badly frightened.
There has been some grumbling from the staff about the administrative approach to discipline, and I think that this will bring things to a head. The mud ball attacks resumed last night, and I wonder whether teacher housing will be under siege for the short-term future. I hope that the kid will be properly prosecuted, and consequences will follow. The student in question has had a really rough life, and it is a heartbreaking story in many ways. But the idea that we can just accept this kind of nonsense is, well, unacceptable. I suspect that this individual will not be around for a while.
Joe's sister's body will be back in the village on Wednesday, as I understand it. I'm not sure when the funeral will be.
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