[quote=AN][quote=CA renter]One more thing about “calling security,” is that even if the kid is sent home or to the principal/dean’s office that day, she will be back the next day or the one after that emboldened and just as bad as ever. As far as that student is concerned, the worst that can happen is she gets a couple of days off of school. Many of these students just LOVE a day off of school. As far as they’re concerned, they’ve “won,” and they will have no motivation to improve their behavior.
And let’s just assume you keep calling security every day to get these kids out of your classroom. Do you want to know what the administrators will say? They’ll tell you that you are clearly not capable of doing your job if you have to keep calling security and suspending your students all the time.[/quote]Not if I have video recording to prove what’s going on. No need for hearsay.
As for “they’ve won” statement, who cares? They don’t want to learn, so let them win. Obviously you and everyone in the teachers Union won’t let the good student out, so my solution then would be to kick out the bad students. If I have to call the cops and get the student arrested, so be it. A video recording is a very powerful tool to prove your case.
Anyways, you have no objection from me that there are bad students. But that has nothing to do w/ bad teachers. You still can’t believe that there are more bad teachers than you care to admit.[/quote]
It’s not a matter of hearsay; the administrators may know full well what you’re dealing with and believe you 100%, but if you can’t handle it for the most part, then they will deem you incapable of doing your job.
See, that’s the difference between theory (people who’ve never done it before, but want to tell veteran teachers how to do their jobs) and practice (those who actually do it, day in and day out, over many years). There are only so many administrative resources that can be dedicated to “security” issues. If a teacher is calling security every time a student acts in a belligerent or obnoxious way, then the administrators will likely determine that the teacher is incapable of doing the job. Security needs to be available when a student gets physically violent or threatens physical violence (sometimes, not even then) or acts in such a defiant way that physical violence is likely to happen. As a teacher, you have to deal with the day-to-day defiance and obnoxiousness. In the “failing schools,” you may well have multiple students in a classroom who feed off of each other and spur each other on in a way that can really spiral into a chaotic situation. That’s why you see so many teachers lose it. They’ve been pushed over the edge after dealing with these extremely high-stress situations over long periods of time.
