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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was in school, disruptive kids were not much of an issue because the school and the teachers were extremely good at managing them. If there was a disruption, the teacher could remove the child quickly from the classroom and the lesson would continue.

My experience with private schools nowadays, through my child, has been very different. I see several disruptive kids who are not being effectively managed by the teacher, and those kids are eventually expelled.

So my question is: which approach is better overall? To me, there seems to be a trend toward shifting responsibility for classroom management from the teacher to the students. What do you think?[/quote]

It really depends on how you define 'disruptive.' A bit of naughty behavior every now and then shouldn't earn a kid a negative label. I’ve seen many teachers call students disruptive just because they didn't follow an instruction exactly or got caught up in what another student was doing. Sometimes, teachers group kids together and label them all based on who they’re sitting with. If you happen to be talking to the 'wrong' person, you’re suddenly the problem. At the end of the day, not all teachers are great at managing a classroom, and just because they’re in charge doesn’t mean students can't voice a different perspective .[/quote]

That's always happened and it's an unfortunate manifestation of human nature.  The goal should be to do better and remember that all people, but kids especially, have the capacity to grow and change.  But when parents, and consultants, push broad overly defensive nonsense like there is no free will then the social contract breaks down.[/quote]

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