Posted 18 November 2005 - 22:52
I had a bad day at school yesterday - one pupil dissolved into tears when I told her I couldn't change the time of her lesson to suit her so I compromised and let her out a bit early instead, and my least favourite pupil (have ranted about her in the past!) turned up without her music - yet again - with some pathetic story about pages have gone missing from the middle of the book, so i asked her which pages and she said she didn't know, so I asked had she practised and she said yes, so I said how did she know what to practise, and in that case the missing pages weren't the ones she needed so she should have just brought the book with her, etc. So then I went next-door to try to borrow some music from my colleague and I could swear that while I was out of the room, the cap for my pen went missing. I looked everywhere and I was so sure I'd left it on the piano. I asked her had she seen it and she said no, but I'm wondering if she took it or hid it out of spite - I certainly wouoldn't put it past her - but of course I can't accuse a pupil of stealing, but in future I will be very careful about leaving her in the room with any of my stuff on her own. Foruntately it was only a bic biro but it's the principle of the thing, and the inconvenience (and mess!) of having a pen in my handbag without its cap on. And it's made me more determined than ever to get her off my timetable for next term.