None of my tenth graders showed uppp today. I have my first class with them and I sat there waiting like a moron for twenty minutes till two of them came to tell me that they weren't coming. The sports teacher planned a soccer match during my hour. I was pissed but more than mad I was a bit dissapointed in them and myself. In that class we are reading To Kill A Mockingbird and though I know that it isn't terrible exciting all the time, still it's school. You should have to show up for school. Truancy is such a huge problem here. One lady told me that truancy is the teacher's fault. If they are skipping your class than you must be more interesting. I do agree that teachers must be interesting but they should be puppets for students entertainment. We are not there to entertain the kids but teach them. We shouldn't have to sing and dance (or in my case only play English games ) to beg them to come to class. COMING TO CLASS IS THEIR JOB! My blood is beginning to boil. These kids are so lazy. They don't have afterschool jobs or extracurricular activities, they have nothing to do but school! My eleventh graders were studying for a test in English called the Cambridge exam so for the past few weeks, actually months they have been excused from class to go home and study. EXCUSED FROM ALL CLASSES, even mine which is ENGLISH! It makes me insane. Okay enough bitching...