Someone must have done it last year too, then, cause I think some of my students were brain damaged already, and I never even got the chance to be the one to do it!
Seriously, some of these kids... actually, I don't think they're brain damaged, but they are so far sunk in their own little world that they don't even hear me talking. I know I'm the distorted wa-wa-wa voice in their little Charlie Brown heads. It's depressing.
I would imagine it is. I suppose you don't get any help from the parents?