Can’t Stop Thinking about Mistake

I’m going to preface this by saying this is such a silly thing to post about. It’s not a big deal, but I for some reason can’t stop thinking about it.

I had a conversation with my principal about a student who has zero motivation and I mean zero. No reward or consequence motivates him and we’ve been talking to mom daily. She says she’ll talk to him and then he’s the exact same the next day. When we had the conversation, she said to send her to him at anytime if he chooses not to do his work after three warnings.

Come to today. Had 7 instances in a 30 min class where he outright refused to do work and disrupted the class by stomping around and whining loudly. I send an email detailing this to her. I of course still wrote it in his behavior folder and contacted mom. I thought I was doing what we talked about? I just got an email that we can’t use email as documentation and to not send her emails about this it needs to be a referral. I didn’t think the email was being used as documentation I thought it was more like letting her know. The folder and the communication I thought was the documentation. She also said that the referral is for big instances, but the problem is these are minor issues that are constant, not one major behavior for a referral (based on the behavior matrix we were given).

Now I feel like maybe I’m an idiot and didn’t understand this conversation 😭 because now we’re just doing the same thing we had been doing. Referrals, parent communication, and behavior folder. We already know this doesn’t work.

Just needed to rant I feel like such an idiot.