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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even in kindergarten kids are rolling their eyes and talking back.[/quote]

Lots of back talk and over the top reactions to not getting their way. I’d usually have one difficult student but now I have 4-5. It’s a lot and it makes most days feel like a marathon. [/quote]

Me at work to my 4th graders: “You have a lot of attitude for someone who doesn’t know how to subtract.”[/quote]

Umm... you have 4th graders that don't know how to subtract? That seems the larger issue here.[/quote]

Not the PP but just STOP! Student behavior is a huge issue and it gets in the way of good teaching and learning. Unless you are in the classroom trying to put out 5-7 behavioral fires before lunch and again after-Just STOP![/quote]

Exactly!

My DD's 4th grade class has had to evacuate the classroom TWICE this week. Just let that sink in. Today is Wednesday - a holiday - and both Monday and Tuesday they were evacuated. Why? An unruly student. Same student both times. And when they evacuate, it's not for short periods of time, either. DD said on Monday it was almost 2 hours, and the email from the teacher on yesterday's incident said that the students went to Miss M.'s classroom during the duration while her class was out of the room at art class. On Monday the students were taken to the library after 30 minutes when it appeared that they weren't going to get the student calmed quickly. DD said they were told to read books quietly but she said most kids just talked about the incident and all the things the student threw around the classroom.

So, 2 hours on Monday without any constructive learning. Then once the student was out of the room and the room was restored, there was another short period where the teacher talked with the kids about the incident to calm any fears, so maybe another 30 minutes of instruction gone. By then she said they did their math unit and it was the end of the day. So Monday my kid's day was independent reading & journal time, history, PE, lunch, recess, science for a bit until the incident happened, library for 2 hours, and a shortened math unit before dismissal.

This is now the 5th disturbance in her classroom since the school year started. Unacceptable and I know lots of parents spent today emailing the principal about just how unacceptable it is. [/quote]

I had a kid like this last year. I counted it once, we lost 20 hours of CORE instructional time (since they could still go to specials) from the 1st day to Thanksgiving. We finally were able to move him out to self-contained, but the parents fought us all the way. They outright said they didn’t care at all about the other kids education. (By the way, in that same time period, he punched 4 kids and shown his genitals multiple times). I was SO thankful, that the majority of the class was already on grade level and the academic loss was minimal - but we were all emotionally traumatized.[/quote]

From teacher to teacher I'm sorry anyone is going through this. I had a kid like this several years back- it took many incidents and five months of documentation for the county to make the correct change. Thank goodness my principal was an amazing guy and stood by me finally suspending the student and we got him moved to an ED school but it was so much and we were all emotionally spent.[/quote]

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