"You're the Meanest Teacher Ever!"

Okay maybe that is a little extreme...really I'm more like a push over as a teacher...didn't do your homework? do it for next class (they know by now I'm not gonna check for it again), not paying attention in class? i'll remind you of where we are, don't know the sentence the entire class just read through one by one? i'll go through it with you word by word.... me as a teacher? pushover!

However kids talking while I'm talking or while others are talking drives me up the wall. Up the wall! So yesterday in class this kid, Samuel, would not listen and would distract everyone else around him (and when there's only 7 kids in the class, distracting everyone around you is pretty much the entire class), so after about five warnings I told him to go to the corner.

Him and the rest of the class kinda looked at me like "Really?" And the custom here seems to be go to the corner and put your hands in the air..but I didn't want to be too mean... BUT it worked so well! The class totally shut up and listened, it was great...I might stick someone in the corner each day, it made me smile the entire class!