09-27-11 / A creative response by Cara Battaglia /
There is a kid in my class who I HATE. I hate him because he makes fun of me. He laughs at me when I ask a question, as though asking a question is a bad thing! I am tired of being laughed at by someone who does not understand the value of a question. So I spit on him. I got in trouble by Teacher, because no one cares about what the kids do to me. They just care that I spit on someone, even though most of it ended up on the floor and he is already way dirtier anyway. He lies and says I did it for no reason. This makes me more angry and I want to spit on him again, but I know I will get in trouble.
When I do things like this, the kids think I am weird, which makes them tease me even more, which makes me angrier and I want to spit on them or yell at them or hit them. But if I do that, I get in trouble and they keep teasing me. What I have to do is not react to them. I know this, but it is, as father says, “easier said than done.”
It is a frustrating cycle.