Put your foot down by Carl Clemons

For the new teachers that are coming to cedar shoals I warn you to try and find another school. The reason I say this is because the students at cedar shoals are very rude and don’t a lot of manners. The ones that do and are good students will make your time here worth the while. A lot of these students are actually good and very smart but you have to force it out of them. The reason I said that is because these students don’t like to read and do any work and love to walk around in the hallways.
From day one you have to put your foot down and set the tone for the whole school year. If you let them run you the first day they will do it for the rest of the year. I know my class took advantage of our student teacher a lot! We did work almost every other day. We always gave her a hard time not because we didn’t like her just because she was a little older than us so we really didn’t see her as an adult like most of the older teachers. You also need to set your rules and how you grade your work the first day too. Don’t let students turn work in late because they will get very use to it and never turn it in on time! Our student teacher let us do this and take points off our grade and we didn’t care so much that we accepted this. Our work ethic became so poor that a lot of students stopped doing the work all together. The students started worrying about the grade near the end of the year when they started thinking about graduation. For you to be a really good teacher you should never let your students slack off and give them a lot of chances because the kids at Cedar Shoals High School will take advantage of you!