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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]HS teacher here.  I stopped assigning groups and seats a lot time ago.  There are way too many seat requests, accommodations and then parent emails for any configuration.    They can pick their seats and I limit group projects.  I prefer the kids who talk sit together.  When apart, they still talk and either talk across the room or talk to whoever is near them.  If it’s too loud, I politely ask them to take their conversation in the hall to continue talking while the rest of us are working, so we can concentrate.  This stops it 99.9% of the time.  [/quote]

What about kids in the class that don’t have any friends to do group projects with in the class?[/quote]

I’m a different teacher.

I limit groups now. Remember when we were in high school? One kid did all the work and the other 2-3 benefited. It’s the same now, and even worse. One kid looks up the answers online and the other 2-3 watch YouTube. I have classes of 36 or more. I can’t adequately monitor all groups, so I do it as little as possible.

I also agree with the teacher above. Loud kids can sit together. I spent years doing the buffer method and decided everyone loses. Now that classes can have 10 or more disruptive students each, I would run out of buffers anyway.

And to the people above criticizing teachers for their management, know that school isn’t what it used to be. Teachers can’t have control of their classrooms because [b]every tool we had has been taken away[/b]. And the kids know it. [/quote]

OT, but what does this mean? [/quote]

DP here but teachers can’t discipline kids anymore. They can’t make them stay after, give them extra assignments or detention, or send them to the principal unless they basically threaten to kill someone. Other than repeatedly asking them to stop, they can’t do anything about it. [/quote]

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