STEM

The Child eater

"Love you ma!"

"Love you too sweetheart! Have fun at your new school!"

Hi my name is Haley I'm in 8th grade. I have brown hair and I love to read.

It's the first day of school. Last year I had been one of the few lucky people to go to a new school that had just been built. It was called STEM, little did I know that what was waiting for me there would have sent me running.

So just like any other middle school on the first day. We walked in, sat down, and shut up. The day went smoothly, I had gotten to meet all of my teachers. My science/math teacher seemed to be the nicest of them all.

"How was your first day of school?''

"It was okay. Someone got my name mixed up, it was funny. I didn't really talk to anybody. But a small group of kids that sat on the other side of the class seemed nice."

"Well good because you have to go back tomorrow. You might as well try to make some friends here."

BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!

Tuesday, just like yesterday, I got up, got ready and went to school.

"Hi your name is Haley right?"

What do I do? Someone said hi to me,and I don't know their name! Play it cool, play it cool!

"Yeah I'm Haley. And your name is...."

"I'm Sania. And this is Ramona, and Emily."

"Hi"

Don't freak out. They are just people, it's not like they are going to bite my head off......... are they!

"Welcome back my fellow students."

Oh yeah! This was the nice teacher that taught a subject called stem at this school for the 8th grade.

"So today you got your chrome books. Correct?"

Whole class "Yes"

"Well good because I posted on moodle, the site you will be using this year for homework, a 7 page document that you need to read by tomorrow."

What! How could a teacher give homework on the second day of school! We haven't even gotten our text books yet.

"Oh and I don't know if anyone had told you this but this entire school is based on technology."

What I heard as she kept talking was..."So instead of using real books and lesson plans I'm just going to give 10 thousand projects and let you drowned."

What ever... get over it. Maybe this is a good thing. Taking a break from all of those strict lesson plans may be a good thing.

"Soooo.... was your second day better? Did you meet anybody yet?"

"Yeah, I met a small group of girls. But my teacher assigned us to read a 7 page documentary on science."

"Well that sucks. Better get to it if you want to impress her."

"Ok ma."

This is boring. Why would she assign something that I can fall asleep while reading it. Would if I just played a quick computer game. Yeah I think I'll do that.

Holy Shit! I've been playing for 2.5 hours! I really need to read that passage. What if I read it tomorrow? Do you think she'll care?

"Let me have a show of hands of who read the whole passage."

As she is counting the hands her smile turns into a face I cannot describe. She seemed angry, she seemed really angry.

"Can someone describe to me why only 8 out of 25 of you read the short passage that was assigned!"

One brave kid raises his hand. And he says softly "Mrs. K I'm sorry but that was quite a long passage and some of us didn't know how to get into moodle from our home computers."

"Well that is no excuse because the passage was very short and I had showed you all once how to get to moodle."

Okay....maybe she's having a bad day. I bet she is still a very nice teacher. Yeah she is just having a bad day.

One month later

"So students here is a new project. (Pulls up project on smart board) You will be working with your shoulder partner on this."

As she explains the project I look over to the person I am going to work with. Wow.... he's cute. But....but I wanna work with that nice girl who's name I can't remember.

As she sits down she then says to start. And that it is going to be in a google presentation.

"Hi I'm Carthan."

"Hi Carthan I'm Haley"

"Do you want me to create the presentation?"

"Yes please. I've no idea how to use this. I have only worked with windows."

"That's ok."

Omg, he is cute. Focus on your school work! Wow I wonder if he does his hair in the morning? Wow his glasses are cute.

"Haley focus on your work and stop daydreaming."

"Yes Mrs. K"

A few days later

As we were working on the project I noticed something. The teacher..... she was talking to a group behind me. I could hear a few things, she said that they could turn it in a day later than everyone else.

What! Why do they get special treatment. That one person from my district said it was because they were her former students. But that's BIASED! I don't think this teacher was the nice "I love all of my students equally" person that I thought she was.

Things like this continued. I finally met another girl. She introduced me to four others. Including the cute boy that I did the project with. There names were Carl, Carthan, Alice, and Whit lock. They all seemed really nice. And thought the same about Mrs. K.

They kept calling her the child eater.

"What does the child eater mean?"

Carthan said "It means that what ever students that weren't in her district she chews up and spits out."

"Lol I never would have thought of that"