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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you are saying: protect the class from the disruptive students.

Unfortunately we have very few tools to do that now. Parents don’t care if you call home, the administration tells us to stop sending kids to the office, and everyone gets promoted to the next grade no matter what. So unless the kid brings a weapon to school or something, nobody will give them any consequences.[/quote]

I'm not asking you to protect the class from difficult students, I'm asking you not to use the other students as a shield between you and the difficult ones. You are the adult and a trained professional: don't dump this on the kids.

[b]The disruptive kid can sit by himself. He can be partnered with someone different each day, or you can design your class so no one is partnered.[/b] He can lose, by himself, whatever privileges you were going to take from the whole class in your frustration. And you can fairly grade the kids who are trying, instead of retreating to group projects to avoid the issue. [/quote]

Believe me, I understand your frustrations. I am the parent of a quiet little boy who shuts down when the room is too chaotic. He hates school.

But I have 34 students in my classroom designed for 25. We literally cannot move. There is no room to sit by themselves, or break apart groups of desks. They have to be grouped, because singleton desks take up so much more space and I literally do not have it.

I change seats every 6 weeks. That's the best I can do. I don't have time to make a new seating chart every single day. It takes me at least 30 minutes per class to accommodate every IEP and 504, figure out social drama of who will not be able to work with who, separate besties who will just get off task, etc. It isn't as though there is one chaotic child and 33 perfect angels. It's the old brain teaser with the fox and the rabbit and the lettuce crossing the river, and it feels like no matter what you do you mess it up and someone suffers.[/quote]

Thank you!!!! Parents coming on this forum and explaining how to teach means nothing, because they know nothing.[/quote]

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