This happened in December, but I forgot to write anything about it. Before the holidays, I had to give my students a test and write evaluations for them. Well, here was my chance to dish out a little pay back to those punk ass kids that I teach. I thought, "I´ll teach those 12 year olds to mess me." After they all did bad on the test my supervisor made up, it confirmed my suspicions...they don´t know shit. They don´t want to learn shit. My evaluations reflected my professional opinion in nicer terms.

The last day of class before Christmas was a day to review the tests they took, handout the evaluations and have a little party. I decided to be nice and let them watch a movie or something. I decided to let them watch an episode of "Friends". I should have known better. They misunderstood my kindness for fear. As you may know, much like dogs and bees, adolescents can smell fear. They are furious because it isn´t in Spanish. I told them that I forgot I was teaching them Spanish and I would fix that problem right away. Then, just to rub salt in the wounds, I came back into class with another copy of "Friends" and told them it was dubbed into Spanish. I put it on, we watched the intro and then they found out it was still in English. "HA HA HA...gotcha ya!" As you can imagine, immature children being taught my such an immature young man is not a good combination.

At this point, I figured I would just give them the evaluations now and get it over with. It was just about as bad as I expected. One student told me that her father was going to "cut her throat" and she mimicked the gesture too, for my benefit. Others were just yelling. Surprisingly, I didn´t draw any tears though. I will have to admit, I was a little disappointed by that. And yes, that does mean I am a bastard. At the end of class, their complaints followed my out into the street and nearly into the metro. Thank god they all live by my academy, otherwise I think they would have followed me home.

Well, just to update everyone, yesterday was my first day back with this class. It went great. Only four of the seven attended. I received the silent treatment for the first few minutes until they realized that they like talking so much there was no way they could shut the fuck up for a whole hour and a half.