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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Find a way to correct the issue with behavior problems and that will go a long way towards retaining staff. During my last few years teaching it was negative student behavior that was my biggest stressor and consumer of time. I had 30 years in an ES and I’d otherwise probably still be there.[/quote]

Do you have a suggestion? No sarcasm. In an ideal world what would admin do?[/quote]

It needs to be easier to expel students who are constant offenders. It needs to be easier to suspend kids. There need to be actual consequences. I am so sick of the same kids ruining it for everyone else. -teacher who had a day today![/quote]

+1 That might be pretty much it. You are just going to get more parental buy-in when a parent is inconvenienced by their child's suspension. As parents who don't know what is going on in the classroom and grew up with real discipline in schools, if they aren't suspended or expelled it isn't going to seem like a serious behavioral issue.

The issue with suspensions and expulsions is it's considered "exclusionary discipline." Exclusionary discipline can have long-term bad impacts on the child who is excluded, and, in the case of a students who are misbehaving due to trauma, poverty, or undiagnosed issues like ADHD, suspension doesn't do a lot to address the root cause. Suspensions are linked to future incarcerations and other things.

But my issue is that just having a broad policy of keeping the kids in the classroom with zero extra support for teachers is even worse. Because then, the students who just need some more boundaries and limits don't get them. Nobody learns. And those kids with trauma, poverty, and undiagnosed issues still have trauma, poverty, and undiagnosed issues. No amount of relationship building or restorative circles is going to solve those problems.

A lot of liberals are afraid that republicans are out to destroy public education, and I think there is something to that. But frankly I don't think we need their help. We are tanking it ourselves. [/quote]

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