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[b]Actually, you are incorrect. I taught for 20 years and I would often seat a disruptive/trouble maker with the quiet, studious, well behaved kids. Not because I wanted to screw my good students, but because I knew they could keep up their grades despite distractions.   Now if a student asked to be moved because she couldn’t handle the distractions, I would absolutely oblige. I’ve had a couple of kids that were so incredibly disruptive that I had to keep rotating them from table to table throughout the year so that no kid had them at their table for too long. I received massive amounts of complaints from parents about these particular teens. I completely understood, but I had to seat them somewhere, and I received, unfortunately, very little support from their parents.[/b][/quote]

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DP here. I just redistributed 5 trouble makers from one table to different areas of the room. There was some initial grumbling by the well-behaved students, but a week later, I have one student being disruptive rather than five. I will continue to follow the referral procedure for him until he either “gets it” or admin decides to change his schedule. Meanwhile, the students who didn’t want to receive the other “bad kids” have seen those peers settle down and work this week. This helps them understand that [b]people can change and everyone can contribute.[/b][/quote]

However you know as well as everyone else here knows that kids with behavioral problems, sometimes don't change we just see them getting farmed out to different classrooms and schools.[/quote]

I have definitely seen this happen, because by the time high school rolls around, the disruptive kids are into bigger disruptions.  What do the parents (of the disruptive kids) do?  Try to blame other kids, of course - same as always.  Other parents need to be aware of their M.O.  If their M.O. was to actually get their kid appropriate help, I would feel differently - but it gets old quick, in the classroom.[/quote]

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