Classroom Chronicles: Part 9

As a sixth grade teacher, I have the privilege of getting kids when they slowly begin to figure out who they are as individuals.  I also have to deal with all the awkwardness and chaos that comes with their respective journeys of self discovery.  I have a particularly awkward kid who is currently having a major identity crisis and can't even decide what he wants his name to be.  For a week it was a different name every day.  He has finally settled on alternating between two names.  One is a jumble of letters, the other the actual name printed on his birth certificate.  He's so confused. In my head I refer to him as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  Unfortunately, both Jekyll and Hyde are currently failing.  I wish he'd spend more time completing his assignments and less time deciding on a name.