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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But teachers aren’t talking about your situation specifically—you’re personalizing this. When I call the parents of an elementary child who told another kid to “F off,” and the parent says, “yeah, he does that at home, too. I don’t know how to stop it,” I do tend to think there are not many consequences at home. In the rare occasions a parent asks for suggestions, I might recommend talking away a privilege or liked activity or item.[/quote]

Exactly. It’s the egregious behaviors. It’s the “f*** you, B****”[b] I get from students when I ask them to put away phones[/b]. When I call home, I get “why the hell do you care if his phone is out? He can have his f***ing phone out.” And then the kid fails the next test and it’s somehow my fault he didn’t understand the material.

It’s the teacher next door who was pushed into a wall by a student. Admin said that she shouldn’t have been in his way. She wasn’t. She was against a wall. He was free to storm out of the classroom but chose to push her first.

I have many stories just like these ones. I’m counting down the days until retirement. My own child played with the idea of putting education down as her major when she applied to college. I told her that’s the only major I won’t pay for. [/quote]

[b]Your admin could definitely help out here[/b]. I had a MS student recently refuse to put the phone away. A quick email to admin and one showed up at my door to confiscate the phone. There are consequences that the current administrators stick to that has made a difference. It has cut down on the disruptions. [/quote]

You don’t know that. [/quote]

I’m the PP who shared that anecdote. I no longer work at that school because admin was most of the problem. We were not allowed to confiscate phones, nor were we allowed to call the office for a phone violation. We were reminded at every faculty meeting: [b]if we make our lessons engaging enough, kids won’t use their phones.[/b] It was considered our fault if phones were out in classrooms.[/quote]

A lot of administrators HATE that they are told to say such garbage to teachers. A lot of them, their hands are tied, too. [/quote]

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