Everything can´t be perfect all the time...Even in Spain

In school my class is know as the bad class, the kids who talk a lot, etc. It´s true, in clases where teachers don´t know classroom managment the class is out of the control, and the teachers have no idea how to get it back. In addition, now they have the expectation that everything will go badly, so naturally it does. I´m pretty sure that the solution is Non Violent communication, and today I tried to explain the concept to the class and our advisor durring advisory (everyone was completley ready to listen ... The class before in Chemistry went so badly that I walked out...Which defintely caused a scene, Being strong and refusing to be treated extremely badly is not the norm here, being calm (ish) and whining about whatever behind the persons back seems to be the cultural norm). Yes I know, walking out of class is not a good idea, but I just couldn´t take it, being yelled at (not me personally, but the whole class) and having so much negative energy thrown at me (all in a FOREIGN LANGUAGE) was more than I could take. And the way the teacher was behaving today was NOT a rare occurance (sadly :( ). Before durring class I tried to talk to the teacher about other forms of communication, I know that you should wait until someone requests help because they will be more open to it, but in this situation MY need of respect is consistently not being met. The teacher blantently ignored me. For some reason the idea of relating to others in a positive peaceful form seems extremely radical. I´m pretty sure that respect for others is not a cultural thing (although how you show it is) so I don´t understand how being peaceful and respectful towards your students is so radical.
Really I think they should try to understand the concept and apply it, really whats the worst that could happen? The class is already completely beyond their control!

If anyone has any ideas on bettering the situation please please tell me!


On a happier note, the picture on the previous post is of me presenting the West Olympia Rotary flag to the Santa Cruz Rotary. I´ll try to remind them a lot of times so that by the end of the year I have a Santa Cruz Rotary club flag for the West Oly club :). It isn´t the norm in Spain (far from it really lol) but I´ve been enjoying going to the rotary club meetings at least every other week. Here the meetings are at 8pm so I don´t have to miss any school, and the tapas (small dinner like things, finger foods) are very tasty :).
This week we had a presentation from someone working on reforming the prison on the Island to be more helpful for the inmates. It was really interesting to think about what the purpose is of prison (whether to simply temporarily remove a risk from the community or try to better the person and their life when they get out, and how you decide when they are ready to get out, etc). Also, the concept that the people in prison are part of the community, and therefore what happens in the commnity effects those in the prison and what happesn in the prison effects those in the community (this one she didn´t really sell me on..but you know, new ideas :) ).

I hope everything is well at home,
Molly

P.S. Those who are learning spanish I highly suggest you watch some of Amar en tiempos revueltos I´m pretty sure if you google it the website for TVE (television española) where you can watch it will come up.