What's up with Whatsit

Write-up

I had to write a student up today. He is the first one I've had to write up since I've been here. Haha! Which is better than writing up 10 or 12 a day as I WAS having to do elsewhere.

What this boy did wasn't as important as his general determination not to mindor have a good attitude. His actions were just a form of general stupidity. I pulled a trick out of my hat from my old job. I wrote down every single irritating thing he did for the whole hour he was in the library in a list, then turned that in to the office. I really could have written him up last week, but let him slide. This week I decided that the buck stops here.

What's odd is that his mom is a teacher at another school in our school system. Most teachers take their child with them wherever they wind up having a job. I can see why this one didn't.

The thing is - and this is the stupidest thing ever - now I feel guilty and wish I could un-turn the write-up in. But if I went one more week without doing something about his behavior, I would have regretted it later. Ah, well.

One naughty child out of the three hundred and something who come through this library isn't bad. So why have I let that one get on my nerves for the whole day?