WARNING: MASSIVE RAMBLING RANT WITH LITTLE INTEREST OR SKILL

One internet to rule them all and in the darkness bind them. 12 Mbps were given to the humans for they above all others desired fast connection speeds. But they were all of them deceived. For woven into this thing was all the malice of a meth junkie on a four day runner.

See, so it's the same old story, the theme of technology, the tools, you know, turning against their masters or enslaving them. I'd like to unplug this thing and go write somewhere besides this table where I've been sitting for the last 3 hours playing online games but I can't see cause I'm downloading this stuff, right and its rilly important but this is Definately the Last One tonight. The last Family Guy I'm gonna download. The last OMD song (really). The last Ghost Recon patch or whatever (better check on that one).

OK. Well, not a lot of time so let's get right into the rant. Today, in class, I had these students totally turn on me. Well, whatever. I mean they were talking in normal conversational tones while I was talking, and throwing things at one another, and even getting up in the middle of class and leaving the fucking room and then coming back in. This is in this class... ah. They have zero interest in english, and I think they resent me teaching it.

Flipping it around. I'm a kid, got a job after school part time. Make enough money for my kaytai and my van with the weird fin kit and the bumpin sound system. When I graduate from this crappy school which is getting phased out anyway; if I decide to graduate, I'll probably keep working at this place or who knows start pimping or what the fuck ever. Who knows, who cares, live fast and leave a good looking cell phone. And who the hell is this asshole? And what the hell is he saying?

So. "jeezus Justin! Why don't you bounce a brick off these kids or at least stand up for yourself?" OK. I'm an assistant teacher. I have this much authority (indicates with thumb and forefinger). I can't even ask a kid to leave the classroom, or see the principal. The worst I can do ( I think.. more on that in a sec) is to tell their homeroom teachers who will tell their *snicker* get this, parents! Right! Like these hellspawn ever had them! I thought about it lots after class and had some discussions with teachers. But in this society, everything is kinda oblique, so nobody ever says "you can do this" or "don't do that". It's like joining a card game in the middle when you don't know the rules.

So what should I do? I could go to war with these guys. Drag them in front of class or stand them in the corner. Really my only weapon is humiliation. Which can be a double edged sword. If they get support from other students in the class... I'm powerless. Not to mention the fact that I'm supposed to be a teacher. Which should involve some teaching, not just having the 10 students that want to learn watch me do battle with these other guys.

But they're disrupting class! And face it. High school is a war zone, not just for the students. I feel some of those same pressures. If I look like a schmuck or a weakling my days will be numbered. So where's my backup? He's looking at me gravely from the fifth row. Finally he steps in and ejects one of the students. Ugh. Worst episode ever.

[I know I should quit but I can't...] so I go through most classes. "Put the katai away", "please put the kaytai away..." "um, could you please..." The students always smile and nod and pretend to put them away and then get the damn things out ten seconds later. I asked one of my senseis if I could take away their phones and she said no that it might generate BAD FEELINGS. AHHH! *puts imaginary gun to head and pulls trigger*