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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does this mean?[/quote]

Assigned seating in class or at lunch where well behaved kids are sprinkled amongst the troublemakers. [/quote]

I mean, isn't that just how assigned seating works? Or are you suggesting labeling each kid as well-behaved or trouble maker and segregating accordingly? Hopefully you realize how silly that sounds.[/quote]

Sure it “sounds” silly when you categorize it as segregation according to levels of observed mis-behavior.

But the problem is, teachers routinely do the reverse of this as a matter of practice in an attempt to mitigate the disruptions rather than group disruptive kids together.

OP is pointing out that this may be a reasonable solution to the teacher, but it actually harms the learning experience of the attentive, behaving child by saddling them with the responsibility of tolerating and balancing out the antics of the misbehaving inattentive kids. 
Mostly this is just a vent from OP to express that it’s frustrating as a parent when you see that your well-behaved child is being used as a buffer to curb other students’ poor behavior. And instead of being rewarded for their good behavior by allowing them to sit next to friends who may also be studious, attentive kids, they are “punished” by having to be subjected to the antics of the kids who need the “influence” of her child.
In classroom management, this means that it’s always the poorly behaved child’s needs that are centered. [/quote]

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