Aje-Butter Beatings (ABB)

I am guilty of beating my students. However, the cane has become my advocate. You'll see an example of a time I was forced to inflict some "aje-butter" physical pain on a student later on in this post. A colleague of mine tagged my corporal punishment skills as such because apparently, I don't whip the cane hard enough and I restrict the beating to their palms. Also, I overheard a student telling the next student up for beating that it doesn't hurt and he shouldn't worry too much. Lol.

The English department does not have a single permanent teacher. All the teachers are Corpers. Funny how they just gave us the curriculum and said "get teaching." Due to my personality, I take every duty I'm assigned seriously, so I really wanna teach the hell outta English but it's difficult. The foundation is already twisted and because they have Corper teachers, I imagine many of them just come to class, deliver a lesson with mediocrity and leave. After all, they are gone in 9 months, so whatever happens, happens. But this is someone's future and I wish the government would invest in more permanent teachers.

For example:
I was marking homework on a Friday, which I assigned on the Wednesday. I always flip back a couple pages to see if the student submitted the last homework and I realized the girl had not submitted a single homework since I started teaching them (about 4 in total). I called her in and we had a conversation.

Me: you have not submitted ANY homework since the term started
Student: Aunty, I did not have the book(what she really meant was that she does not have the textbook)
Me: and you think now is the the right time to say this?
Student: I did not have textbook
Me: what about the one I gave you on Tuesday? The last homework. Were you in class?
Student: no Aunty. I am not in class then when you give us.

This student at JSS3 cannot even speak in appropriate tenses. I realize that I cannot save them but I will do the best I can. Needless to say that I gave this girl 3 ABB for taking her homework for granted.

I passed my boundary one day and assigned a 5 sentence summary of a passage we read in class. Oh my God!! Big mistake. I endured marking class A's homework. I spent half my time trying to figure out what they were trying to say. When I got to class B's I just checked to see if they were done and gave 5 for effort. I could not bear reading anymore. I was frustrated. No joke, no exaggerating. On a different day, I asked for 10 sentences in relation to the day's lesson and one of my male students wrote "I like your tatto on your back" (those kids must have x-ray vision or something).

Each day gets better though. They like me more, I like them more, we have fun in class, I allow them to clown a little and we get serious when it's time to work. But my aje-butter beatings have been efficient though. I make sure I don't abuse the power. The goal is to gain their cooperation and respect immediately so that the need to use the cane will decrease with time because they really do take Corpers(especially female Corpers) for granted. However, so far, so good.

I swear I have been abiding by their dress codes yet they complained about 2 of my skirt lengths and earrings. Surprisingly, no one talks about the nose ring. When they complained, I let them know that I was positive my skirts (an inch above the knee) were appropriate by every standard, even church. I sport some long ones also, so I mix 'em up. I mean, a girl can only have so many skirts. However, I don't argue, I don't get vexed, I just say that I understand, I apologize and wear them again and again. Let's see who tires out first :D

~kdamsel~