Here in the southern part of Serbia things are not that bad. The students are still controllable.
but i don �t know for how long this �half-blissful � state is going to last having in mind the transition that the country is going through, the growing corruption that is penetrating all the spheres of life and the rush for a �happier and richer � life, which in the end proves to be the very opposite.
The children are the ones who are suffering the most. There is no one to look after them. In the past everyone took part in the upbringing of children, not just the parents, and things were so easier and nicer. Now, there �s only school left and it can �t manage it on its own, especially when half of the school stuff have become indifferent to what is going on, having the �overall conditions � as their excuse not to lift a finger and make a change.
As i said in my profile, i �m an idealist and i want to make a change regardless of how huge the obstacles i have to overcome. I do not want to give up that easily. If they make me stoop, i will stand up again, and again, and again ... If more people had that attitude, things WOULD change.
We have a student in our school who was transferred from a nearby town (i work in a small village) and the moment he got here, he turned the school upside down. He would disrupt classes, fight, argue with the teachers, etc. He got on my nerves and there was constant friction between the two of us. Until one day. It happened that we shouted at each other so much and it turned out that he thought i hated him (which was true) and that it was the reason why he was behaving the way he was. Then, it turned out that the mother had left him (to start a new family), the father had left him (already has a new family) and he was crying for attention. The "tough guy" broke down and started to cry....
To cut the long story shorter, i began working with him, staying after classes to talk and tell him things. I told him about my personal life, how i myself grew up without a father (never seen him, never had the wish to), YET did not let resentment and anger fill my heart...
What i did was channel Stevan �s anger into sth creative by giving him a role of the Grasshopper (ironically, because he was lazy) and he marvelled at the performance. HE got the best critique. He craved attention and he really outdid himself only to tell me afterwards it had been worth it...
I have to go to class now. I will send a link later on where you can see the boy performing ...
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hcgii4bnqgq/The Ant and the Grasshopper.mp4hope you can open MP4 files ...
