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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When has a student’s behavior ever been the teacher’s fault?

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Not the behavior, but the lack of skills to manage the situation. In my experience behavior problems could be easily managed by good teachers.[/quote]

I’ve been teaching for over 20 years and I have strong classroom management.

Student behavior has changed dramatically. A teacher’s toolkit (the ways we can address behavior) has been greatly diminished by administrative policies.

You can’t compare what we experienced decades ago to a modern classroom. [/quote]

This.  Decades ago, the worst issues teachers were dealing with most places were things like chewing gum in class or talking too much.  Discipline from teachers worked because kids COULD be sent out of class.  And if a parent called home, kids would get in massive trouble, usually meaning a whooping.  Now, teachers cannot send kids out of class to the office unless it is an incredibly terrible reason (think punching another student leading to bleeding, or issuing a death threat).  And please don't get started on private school teachers and how they should be more strict.  I went from public to private and private school teachers hands are TIED.  We wouldn't want to piss off the entitled tuition paying parents now would we?  
In BOTH public and private I've experienced very young children threatening to shoot other people (repeatedly, with credible threats).  I've had kids who cannot control their impulses and are always in other kids faces, repeatedly pushing, kicking, spitting and biting.  I've had kids turn over furniture, throw chairs, destroy materials, etc.  The classroom has changed.  Detention is not a thing anymore (please, please, please let's bring back detention!!!).  Suspension is incredibly rare, as is expulsion.
And even if schools were to expel a kid, there's not enough alternative schools to take them.

And yes, some teachers are better managers than others.  Yes, this is an area that every teacher I know is always working on.  And yes, it is up to us as adults to help kids learn how to behave (by adults I mean parents, teachers, families, communities).  But kids are so badly behaved today it is stunning.  [/quote]

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