Survived the first week. 18 to go.

All in all, the kids aren't that bad.  Although I'm a little depressed at their test scores.  I gave them a 63 question test on lab safety, scientific method and measurement (all review, mind you!), and only had 3 A's.  And that's with each question only counting one point!  They could miss 10 questions and still get an A.  Had more D's than A's.  I had one student who got a zero.  After posting the rules for taking a test (stay seated, no talking and no cheating) he gets up and comes to my desk.  I tell him he must sit down and raise his hand and I will come to him.  He says he can't do that.  I tell him he must or he will get a zero.  He says he doesn't care, so I open the grade book and give him a zero.  Then he says "Now, that just ain't right."  I take him outside into the hallway and explain about the rules.  He says he wasn't bothering anyone.  I tell him that if everyone who has finished their test started walking around it would bother the other kids and I can't let him walk around and not the others, it wouldn't be fair.  Then he wants to go to the office.  I told him he can go back in and sit down until everyone finishes or I can write him up and he can go to the office.  He goes back in and sits down.  Found out, he just got out of trouble and has only been allowed back this week.  They told me not to worry, he'll only last about another week and he will be sent off again.  That bothers me, because he wasn't loud or angry about anything.  Part of me wants to talk to him and try to motivate him to continue in school and graduate, but part of me feels everyone has already tried to help him and he's probably sick of everyone bugging him about school.  I guess either way I'll feel terrible.  I should keep my big mouth shut and let him make his own mistakes....but I'll probably talk to him.  I'm an idiot.