Tsk, Tsk, Tsk

It was great sitting with a Responsibility Team in action this morning in 11C U.S. History. I was pleasantly surprised to find the WHOLE Team sitting together, as this particular team has had some difficulty in getting one or two members to participate with the others regularly this week. They were not sitting idly either. In fact, Rubel was very professionally reprimanding Bella for not having a checklist, which students should have picked up on Monday. "I'm very disappointed with you," he told her.

Bella responded by telling Rubel how she was sitting with Principal Nariman during our last class, therefore she was in fact completing other work. Rubel then turned to Zaman and asked him why he also did not have a checklist. "What have you been doing this week? When you go home?"

Zaman: "I don't need to tell you what I do when I go home."

Lisjan, sitting nearby, looking down: "Tsk, tsk, tsk (shaking head)."

But it was all said respectfully.

Zaman, meanwhile was holding a paper of Lisjan's in his hand. Lisjan's nicely annotated document paper had been left in their Team folder, where it should be. Lisjan to Zaman: "Why do you have my paper, man? Give that to me [takes paper from Zaman's hand]."

At that point, I could not contain some mild laughter at the situation. I was very proud of how this group, very multicultural with multiple language groups and ethnicities represented (Bangladesh, Albania, Dominican Republic, and Mali) was handling itself.