in hell

did i do something to piss god off?

okay, for real. here's the sitch:

1. student a turns in a paper - entirely cut and pasted from the internet - and gets upset when i figure out that its plagiarized. he gets even more upset when i have him call his mother after class to tell her that, yes, he probably will be failing the first semester of senior english (not because of this, but this definitely won't help) and no, he won't be playing basketball with an 18% in the class.

2. student b calls the computer gay and has to do 25 pushups (as you cannot equate gay with stupid in my classroom), then yells "what?" when i call his name. when asked to step outside, he tells me that i pick on him, that other people say that and get by with it. i've never been so tempted to say "bullshit" to a student before in my life. at the core, his issue is that he doesn't agree with my politics (which i've actually cut out of class discussions because of mister sensitive) and, therefore, thinks that i'm the devil incarnate. okay, i AM the devil incarnate... but not because of my politics.

3. student c skips my class the other day after i gave him a pass then whines because i don't trust him out of the room anymore.

i hate being new.