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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bottom line, there are too many dysregulated students in the classroom.   Once you get up to three or four out of control dysregulated students a teacher can't teach.  They will be struggling just to maintain control of the classroom.   Even having only one or two having a bad day can make everyone miserable as that child will try to distract others to gain attention/ avoid work.

We need more actual therapists in the schools if society expects schools to address student severe emotional needs Not thinking that having teachers look at powerpoints for training suddenly makes us into therapists for a class of 35.

We need calming rooms, physical space with tools to deescalate students, more time to discuss individual students so that staff can be consistent, extra staff who can pull out dysregulated students and still work on their academic needs without disrupting class or violating federal rules, we need to hold students accountable for their choices, and we need to require parent meetings for consistently bad behavior.    Unfortunately, sometimes the only way to see a change is to inconvenience the parents.

Finally, we need to get reinstate attendance/lateness policies and get rid of the 50% rule.  Right now students are basically allowed to wander a school building, refuse to go to class, disrupt/invade classrooms and then turn in a few assignments at the end of a quarter and pass with a D.  Yes I have seen this happen repeatedly.  It happened before the pandemic but we basically had tends of thousands of students living without a lot of good adult supervision running around like wild ponies for a year and half.  In school they have become resistant to redirection and intervention.[/quote]

It's crazy that we've reached a point that we can't even fail a student.  It's impossible.  We pass kids on year after year who have no business going on to the next grade level and before you know it, they're in 5th grade reading on a first grade level. I have a student just like that in my class right now. She has been brought up several times and mom has refused services so the child just keeps getting passed along and absolutely flounders.  I don't teach HS but I am beginning to see why people say a HS degree is meaningless these days.  I'm curious what colleges are seeing in terms of the quality of students they have received over the last decade.  I imagine remedial writing courses would be required for many first year students.[/quote]

These days kids are amazing half the class has above a 4.0 and 1400 SATs!! They've done such an amazing job.[/quote]

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