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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You didn't share what was happening in your school.[/quote]

Ok, that's fair. Students who yell and curse at you. Students who are allowed by admin to not follow the rules that everyone else has to follow, which causes a domino effect as soon as one doesn't have to follow a rule. Once admin tells them they don't have to follow a rule, then they have zero respect for you as the adult in charge whereas admin comes in to "fix" the problem but then is nowhere to be found once they've created this detrimental dynamic between you and the student.  Students who scream directly in your ear when they don't like what you ask for them to do. Students who throw objects at you.  Admins who encourage teachers to put themselves between students who are physically fighting. Students who disrupt the learning environment nearly every day for the 20 something other students in the room and we're told to not do anything that will set them off --like complete their assigned work--but we're held responsible when they haven't completed assignments.

These are not students with IEPs or students who are allowed to be brought up for EMTs. Elementary school. -OP[/quote]

OMG, this is untenable. You should not have to suffer, and what’s worse, the other students suffer. Can you get the other teachers and the union together to organize a sit-out? [/quote]

This happens in so many schools.  Ask your kids!  Ask whether there were any issues in the classroom today?  If you’re willing to listen, I bet your kid will report back on all sorts of horror stories.

[b]Teachers are in a really bad position.  Students know that they can get away with terrible behavior.  And principals don’t want to acknowledge anything that reflects poorly on the school.[/b]  [/quote]

This is it in a nutshell. [b]Especially princials not wanting to acknowledge anything that would reflect poorly on their school, because then they have to be held accountable for it. So many spineless administrators currently in school buildings. [/b][/quote]

Honestly, the biggest issue is the parents. The parents of troublemakers and bullies who don't want to accept any kind of responsibility or who refuse to admit that their child is a problem. I've seen entitled or ignorant parents fight with administrators to keep their kid in a classroom where the child has clearly have been violent or disruptive.  [/quote]

I agree with this as well. What we hear from parents of these kids is crazy. They accuse us of lying, of targeting their kid, of framing their kid etc. Kids flat out lie to their parents to get their parents to come in with guns blazing and the parents don't even want to hear what the school has to say--they take what their kid tells them as gospel.

We get "You have it in for Larlo! You didn't give him a PBIS ticket when every other kid got one! You're racist!" 
Me: "Mrs. Larla, the reason Larlo didn't earn a ticket during whole group was because he was standing up and shouting while I was teaching a lesson. He was preventing the other students from accessing the lesson, and refused to sit down and stop shouting even after I had asked him 3 times."
Mrs. Larla: "That's not true at all. Larlo said he was sitting quietly just like all the other students."
Me: "Unfortunately he didn't tell you the truth. I had two other adults in the classroom who also witnessed what happened." 
Mrs. Larla: "You all must think he's shouting when he's just talking. He's just a loud talker."
Me: "This was not his speaking voice. He was shouting so loud that teachers in classrooms down the hall could hear."
Mrs. Larla: "That's not even possible. He never shouts at home. It must have been someone else they heard and you're blaming it on him. I expect that if he's in the classroom for the lesson that he gets the same rewards as the other students do. You have it in for him and I don't know why. This school is racist. I'm going to the news to expose you all."

When I told admin about this conversation, they told me to not contact the mother anymore and ignore Larlo's behavior to get mom to back down. So now I'm not supposed to document Larlo's disruptive behavior at all and of course it has now escalated because Larlo knows that he can do whatever he wants because his mom will believe him and has completely discredited us. Never mind the 20 something other kids who are entitled to an education. Avoiding issues with Larlo's mom takes priority. Then others see that students like Larlo don't face any consequences and they start seeing what they can get away with as well. It's a terrible learning environment. [/quote]

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