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[quote=Anonymous]Teacher perspective: I used to have lovely, small classes of 15-17 students. One particularly challenging year, I had a highly disruptive student. The school chose to retain that student because his/her family were major donors and paid multiple tuitions. I also had another two students who had impulse control issues. They contributed a lot of positive things to the school community but could also derail both lecture and quiet work time. I separated these three students to different table groups in my classroom. There was no way to do this without putting them next to my most respectful, highest achieving students. I wasn’t expecting the high achieving students to keep the off-task kids in line. Rather, I couldn’t have so many powerful personalities in close proximity to each other and amplifying each other’s energy.

We often tell ourselves involved stories about why something we don’t like is happening. But you have no way of knowing why a teacher sets up a seating plan in a particular way. We often have several IEPs to consider that dictate which students need to be at the front, at the back, near the teacher, near a bathroom, etc. [/quote]

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