Lies

I showed up at my school this week, and called my student out of his class. When he got to the tutoring room, he just said that he didn't have anything to do. No homework, no questions, nothing. I asked if he was failing any classes and he said he wasn't sure. After a little while of questions, he said that he didn't have any E's. Which lead me to believe that he was lying to me. How can you tell me that you aren't sure if you're failing, yet you don't have any E's. Once called out on this fact he changed his story to that he didn't have any lower than a C in any classes. At that point he must have been lying to me. Personally, it kind of offended me. I've met this kid a few times, and never implied any reason for him to have to lie. Just tell me the truth, I'm not going to yell at you. I really feel like I'm an authority figure to him, which I guess is the way it's supposed to be, but at the same time, I hope he feels a little more open with me. But I guess that isn't the case. Anyway, I asked him if he wanted to go back to class and he said yes, so I let him go. If a student doesn't want to be tutored or helped, then that is their decision. I'm not going to force anyone to sit down with me. And of course my other student wasn't there again.

I think maybe next week I might ask our director if I can have a third student to work with, or give me a little guidance with what to do in those situations.

Code Yellow

When I showed up to the school, there was not a student in the hallways. I thought that was really odd because it was the last two hours of a Friday. There were ALWAYS kids in the hall. I signed in, in the office and saw a fellow tutor when he told me that they were in a Code Yellow Lockdown. He said that our coordinator told us to go home and thanks for coming. I was taken back a little by it, because three weeks ago they were in a Code Yellow Lockdown, but we still tutored that day.

I had another agenda to do at the school anyway so it wasn't a completely wasted trip. I had to pass out something to my volleyball girls at the school. I knocked on the classroom doors and teachers were asking through the door who I was. It was very odd to me because the last time teachers were so quick to give their students hall passes. I wasn't even allowed to talk to any of my girls. I was asked by different security guards at the school what I was doing in the halls, I assume they thought I was a student at their school. The whole experience was so weird, why were they so concerned this week and not the time before? Either way, I didn't get to do much tutoring.