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[captain kirk]

I wonder if anyone has experience with this weapon.

I call it a weapon because in the student arsenal this one is tops IMO.

About two months ago I was sitting outside the English afterschool program room and a grade 5 girl let loose directly behind my head. Which felt like directly into my ear. I let her have it once class started. She was shaken but didn't quit the class. That was two months ago.

Today, in a grade 6 class, normal pub elem day, a girl three rows from the front let loose with the high pitched scream. It was devastating. That was five hours ago and my ear still aches.

In both cases it's a result of getting too familiar, comfortable, friendly with the student in some encounter in the halls just before the incident. And by that I mean just joking around with them in their group. I don't think that's a bad thing at all but a side effect seems to be the letting loose of the 'devastating high pitched scream'. It's a don't give a fark-ism. It controls the whole room like an air raid siren for that second. It's way too much. It's going on my list of don't do's before class starts; "don't speak Korean to your friend during class. And, girls, don't scream". If I remind them they won't do it.

I know something about the second girl. She's very funny, I like her alot, but if she KNEW the effect one of these screams has on my ear she would be sorry. She's pulled over by the homeroom teacher quite often. Her response is to put her chin down and wait the lecture out. She often smiles and says, 'my brain goooooood', or 'my head gooooood'. This is when she sees me in hall. Because she knows I've seen her in the teacher's room getting pulled over and lectured for discipline infractions. 'My head gooood' = 'those diciplining teachers don't know shit'. She's boisterous, rambunctious, and quite the comedian.

Her homeroom class, I heard from my Kcoteacher today, is led by a homeroom teacher who has a 'free mind'. That's his homeroom teaching style. This seems to result in yahooism. High spirits.

What the hell she was doing shrieking like that during class I have no idea. I talked to her during class asking why she just did that. Said it was a weapon. She smiled and shrugged her shoulders as if to say, 'my brain gooooood'.

I'm going to talk to the homeroom teacher and have her write out the line, 'I will not scream in class' enough times to fill up one side of an A4 page of paper. Or probably just WARN every class at the start of class, 'girls, NO screams'.

There have been only the two above screams in three months that have been a direct hit. I've had to stop and tell 'all the girls' (since it's only girls who can do this) a few times though after there has been someone, couldn't tell who at the time, who screamed. It's VERY high pitched. It really is a WEAPON IMO. You've heard of opera singers able to break wineglasses. Same thing. Kindergarten kids can do it. But an upper elem girl who's retained the knack since then, and has greater lung power and control, is wanted by the Pentagon.

[tommo123456789]

I've had a couple of boys do it in my classes.. I just get there attention and give them the stink eye.. and say if it happens again.. I'm going to get K Teacher.. Seems to do the trick.

[WoBW]

I have a boy who doesn't scream, but when he laughs it's so high pitched itdrives me crazy. I tell him he sounds like a girl.

[raclos234]