Day 445: The Spectacle

So in case you're wondering, yes, Judy is *still* crying! After two days of bliss last week, she went back to her usual crying screaming tamper-tantrum self. And oh man did she ever put on a show today...

She was crying when I first came into the class (as my day always starts, how lovely eh?) but I decided just to ignore her and begin class as usual. She doesn't listen to a damn thing I say and giving her attention just seems to make things worse, so I've been encouraged to just 'let her do her thing' and try and proceed as usual. Today was also one of the many days where her mom waits outside in the hall on guard for when she gets too loud and too out of hand. Personally I think her mom's presence makes things worse, but I'm not allowed to say stuff like that.

So we were about ten minutes into Phonics and all the other eleven sat there as perfect angels working in their textbooks (today was the letter 'P') while Judy just sat there and cried. Her crying is certainly distracting, but we have to do four pages a day in our books, which is a lot for 5-year olds, and we've no time to stop and fuss over Judy's bullshit. Well she started to get louder and louder and then at that point her mom came into the room to pull her out into the hall so as not to disrupt the other kids anymore. Well Judy decided that she was in no mood to leave the classroom (she'd rather just sit in her chair and cry and scream) and that she was having absolutely none of this leaving-the-room-deal!

She began to scream *even louder* and then threw the Mother Of All Tamper Tantrums! She began to kick and hit her mother and at that point her mom had to actually DRAG HER OUT OF THE CLASSROOM BY HER HANDS AND FEET as Judy screamed bloody murder and took every chance to swipe at her mom. All the while I'm trying to remain composed and keep the kids focused on the Phonics. "Penguin is a P sound. Let's colour the penguin!" as Judy's thrashing body is dragged by me and out the class. Oh fuck...it's days like this where I wish that she just wouldn't come back to school...