As I indicated in my last post Evan has struggled in his 'new' school. There appears to be many students that don't make the best decisions and don't really care what adults and or teachers think. If they are like this at 10 what will they be like at 16? Anyway, Evan needed to talk to me this evening. His classroom has now been assigned 'jobs' where they earn 'money' and can also lose money for inappropriate behavior. Evan's teacher has assigned him as hall monitor. He is to walk in the back of the line and if anyone is talking (halls are a quiet zone) or messing around he is responsible for notifying them that they owe a $1 to the teacher. If they back talk him, he has been given the 'authority' to take another $1.
Well, Evan says that he has had to fine almost everyone in the class at one point or another (and I believe him because of the stories that he tells and the teacher has agreed with). So now the student's are bad mouthing him and indicating that they are going to get him back because he is telling on them.
I told him that he was given a job to do and he has to complete the task doing what he believes is right and not to worry about what everyone else is saying. So after a little more discussion he said, 'Doing what is right is not always popular and doing what is popular is not always right.'
Profound words for a 10 year old. I hope he remembers them forever.
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