First of all, is anyone reading my stuff I wonder? Anyways, today I taught in a 3rd grade classroom with a student who is very mentally disturbed, in a scary way - like Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" but he is only 9 years old. I shall call him T to protect his identity. T flips out every time he sees a female student I'll call K. Apparently he attacks at the very sight of her and I found it to be true. He rises out of his desk and lunges at the poor girl, if he had a knife I swear he would stab her. The boy is diagnosed as being mentally ill, yet they mainstream him. He just sits there scowling, putting his face in his hands, or mumbling repetitive statements about random things. He's not retarded by any means, more like paranoid schiznophrenic. I tried to get the psycho boy to make a mother's day card, he looked up and yelled "what has she ever done for me!" Later in the day he tore the label off of his bottled water and ate it -seriously. I watched him swallow it. The other kids said he does it all the time. Fortunately, the rest of the students were all perfectly behaved angels, I love 3rd grade best. I have to say that T is a future serial killer in the making. He is very scary.
