Friday, April 4, 2008.11:24 PM
Impossible students or impossible teacher?
Thank you, A.S.
No. of smses: at least 10
No. of calls: 6 of which I only picked up 1 (had no idea he called 5 more times as my phone was on silent mode and I was busy with my bassoon)
Level of irritation the above contact caused me: 9/10
Intensity of murder intent: 9/10
The SMSes
Slightly irritating: "Are you going tmr to my sch if you dun reply i m not going"
Rude: "If i dun rcv any sms from you then i m not going tmr you also dun need to go if i dun rcv any sms from you" (Er what are you talking about?)
Bizarre: "Just asking wad is ur service provides" (That sounds wrong...but I think you mean service provider.)
Rude and immensely irritating but amusing at the same: "When i called you you sound quite fierce" (punctuations please!)
Pesky: "Are you coming tmr?"
Irritating: "Sat? 10am?" (Yes for the 1000th time. Our language of communication is English, I believe.)
Making my blood boil: "Ok you sure you will come?" (I suspect that's why he asked for my service provides. Wait. Service provider, to be correct. Maybe my smses were intercepted by Aliens before it got to my student.)
Amusing: "Oh ok slp dun be angry I shall not disturb you any further Sry slp accept my forgiveness" (That was his reply to my sms - "If you continue saying or asking things that are inappropriate for a student to say, i shall reconsider teaching you. Please kindly bear this in mind." Also, stp usg abbr 2 mch it mks me dizzy. U r confsg pls n slp. Do you also want to kowtow and offer me tea?)
Irritating: "Um just to confirm is it this sat 10am?" (My smses to him got intercepted by aliens. I'm sure.)
The last straw: "You sure you tmr 10am coming?" (I am so going to give you some colours to see for our first Teacher-student meeting.)
Story of annoying student and losing-her-patience teacher to be continued...after the first meeting tomorrow. I'm sure my darling student will provide me with lots of materials to write on.
___________________________________________________
My primary 5 malay student, to whom I have to teach mathematics to, is asking me if I do feel like killing her.
Yes, I do. Sometimes.
But I can't murder my cash cow. Oh well.
She hates mathematics to the core. I even have to resort to tearing papers or looking for sweets to make mathematical concepts easier to grasp. Oh, come...on...
She also does not pay attention and whenever I ask her if she understands what I'm explaining, she says yes. Then when it comes to doing a similar question, she comes up with this "I don't understand..." pet phrase to deal with me. I so feel like a cassette recorder.
I doubt she's dumb. She simply doesn't want to understand and remember whatever was being explained. It's in one ear and out the other.
Maybe, this is a sign...that I'm not fit (enough) to be in the teaching profession.
But I should probably just take my money despite having to age 5 times faster than teaching someone who likes maths better. Sigh.
.:. 1C o m m e n t s.:.