I need to talk to my Primary President
I’ve decided that I need to talk to my Primary President. The situation with my CTR 6 class has gotten out of hand. I have 7 kids that come on a regular basis. I do have a team teacher, but thanks to work she can only be there every other week. Thanks to General Conference, Stake Conference, and next Sunday being the fifth sunday and thus the Elders are taking over primary for the third hour, she hasn’t taught in several weeks. More importantly, the kids haven’t seen her in several weeks. The primary presidency sends around the "lifesaver" card to relief society and I get another adult in the class for the third hour. However, I don’t end up with someone in there during primary itself for sharing time and singing time. There are two girls and 5 boys in my class. The two girls more often than not are good as gold. The boys, however, are so hard to deal with on my own. There are two of them that get going on their own, and then the other three get going on amongst themselves. I could handle either group, but I can’t handle them together anymore. And then in class, even though I have an adult in there, who ever it is from week to week isn’t willing to help discipline them and help really keep order. As a result, I’m constantly interrupting the lesson to try and keep order. That’s no good for me and that’s not good for the kids either. Now I know the Bishopric wants to keep my team teacher in primary and that’s all well and good, but not for this class. 5 and 6 year olds are still at an age where they need real consistency and that includes their teachers. Team teaching’s fine for them, but it’s gotta be the same two teachers, instead of seeing different faces every other week.
Ive gotten to the point where I dont mind teaching the lessons. At first, that was the problem. I’ve been in primary since May of ’04. I spent from May ’04 through Jan ’05 helping out the primary chorister and then from Jan ’05 through Oct ’06 as the primary chorister. Then last October I was released and called as a primary teacher and I taught Valiant 12 until Jan, when I moved to CTR 6. I had some issues at first with the lessons and dealing with needing other things to do, etc. But now, I can handle the lessons in and of themselves, but I can’t handle the large class with little real help and little consistency.