Tuesday, June 23, 2009
MY HORRIBLE STORY AT THIS SCHOOL
I would like to tell you about my 7th grade experience with Phillip Katzmann.Everything begins when Phillip decided to fire 2 great teachers. Then, he ended up being our science teacher (what a horrible experience), and I ended up as his TA.One morning I went to science class, really happy thinking I would see you (Mr.Sam) there, always smiling, waiting for all of us, but to my disappointment I found Phillip Katzmann(someone you wouldnt want too see that early in the morning) and we all asked: "Where's Mr.Sam?" and he replied: "Oh, Mr.Sam and Ms.Jen were not happy here so they left". I wanted to cry because now:1.Phillip was going to be our new science "teacher".2. I felt safe and motivated with Mr.Sam and Phillip had demonstrated no ethic or teaching skills as our MUN leader and the social studies teacher.A nightmare had come true. After that long and boring first block it was TA time something Mr.Sam had organized in order to keep kids busy during a block that was empty and would help teachers who had lots of work. Mr.Phillip, aware of my dislike for him, chose me as his TA. He made me vacuum clean his office, carry heavy stuff, walk from one side of the school to the other with no clear purpose, made me stay in his office while he went for lunch so I missed my lunch time and so forth. All the activities were quite awkward and antipedagogic.I started to rebel against him, and got angrier at the sight of his ever red-faced-body-sloped-forward, nervous and tense presence. I was unfairly suspended twice. The last time the other party (a boy called Fabrizio who pretends to be charming but is a real jerk behind teachers' backs) was not suspended! It was agreed by Mr. Phillip and the parents of MS students in a special middle school crisis meeting that any two kids in trouble would be BOTH suspended. Perhaps Fabrizio did not because his father is a member of the board. One night EA organized a bingo. My mom dropped us and asked us to let her know when to come pick us up. My mom called Mr. Phillip several times, sent him text messages to know when she should come for us but never got a reply. Then, when everybody left, Mr. Phillip took us angrily to his home, he lives on campus, and made us call my mom. She came within seven minutes and then Mr. Phillip started shaking his head and scolding my mom in front of us because she was late. All the people had left 10 or 15 minutes before she came! He was heavily drunk, his breath stunk and my mom tried to make him come to his senses but he kept scolding and interrupting her until she yelled back at him that she was NOT underage and therefore she would take no such attitude from him because she was, at that time of day, a parent not his employee. Mr. Phillip Katzmann called me a thief because a little tag on one of his daughter's toys went missing and I happened to find it laying on the library floor and took it home without meaning to as I put it in my pocket because it looked important but then I forgot about it completely. My bro found it laying on my room floor and when Phillip started asking for it, Klaus told him he'd seen it at home. That does not make me a thief. When my mother told me he had referred to me as a thief I did something I had wanted to for a long long time: I opened his office door and told him everything that was in my system making me sad and irritated. The last 2 weeks of school turned up to be worse. He dint let us drink water or go to the bathroom during his classes. Mr. Phillip Katzmann is a man who cares about himself and his 2 kids and wife and fluff everyone else.Of course I got back at him when I got the highest Math grades of the entire class. Mr. Phillip was like wtf?...SHE got the highest grade.We all suffered, teachers and students alike, except the patronizing students who kissed Phillip's ass so they wouldnt get in trouble and thats one of the main reasons he HATED me, because I did not patronize him. As a teacher, he was boring and unbearable. As a director, he was incoherent and did not give equal treatment to everyone.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
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