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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you are saying: protect the class from the disruptive students.

Unfortunately we have very few tools to do that now. Parents don’t care if you call home, the administration tells us to stop sending kids to the office, and everyone gets promoted to the next grade no matter what. So unless the kid brings a weapon to school or something, nobody will give them any consequences.[/quote]

I'm not asking you to protect the class from difficult students, I'm asking you not to use the other students as a shield between you and the difficult ones. You are the adult and a trained professional: don't dump this on the kids.

The disruptive kid can sit by himself. He can be partnered with someone different each day, or you can design your class so no one is partnered. He can lose, by himself, whatever privileges you were going to take from the whole class in your frustration. And you can fairly grade the kids who are trying, instead of retreating to group projects to avoid the issue. [/quote]

Those poor children turned into human shields.  So sad!  Can’t you see they don’t need to be protected from difficult students, they just need to be….  Not a shield. Completely different! You can be out there stuck in the rain without an umbrella and not need an umbrella, just a raincoat or boots or an awning.   Those aren’t an umbrella.

You brave teacher need to BATTLE these children into SUBMISSION (except mine! Mine will NEVER need battling!)to not protect my child.
- Larla Petri[/quote]

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