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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a huge reason why public schools are failing. There are no consequences for poor behavior. I think class sizes play a role as well as staffing. We have full grade levels struggling due to the behavior of 5-8 kids. We have parents asking teachers how to parent their kids. It is a mess. [/quote]

What consequences do you think would make a difference?  I am old enough to remember the days when teachers beat kids in the hallways.  Behavior was even worse then than now.  I remember feeling much more physically threatened by my own students.  I actually think the behavior overall now is better than it was 35 years ago, when I got my first teaching job.  The issue I see now that we didn't see then, was kids with severe emotional disabilities being kept in general ed classrooms, along with kids with learning disabilities and whatever else.  Way back when, a lot of the really challenging kids (the ones who can ruin a teacher's entire year and make her quit) were not mainstreamed.  Just my opinion, and apparently central admins don't agree, but I think mainstreaming kids with learning disabilities was the right thing to do, but [b]mainstreaming kids with severe behavioral problems was not.  If the kid is preventing 24 others from learning for every one of 180 days, then the kid needs to not be in that class.[/b][/quote]

+ a million[/quote]

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