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Master Kazuya posted...

There's a sliding scale to dealing with kids. On one end, you have the nice and loving teacher who cannot put their foot down since it goes against their nature, and on the other end, you have the rigid, strict, authoritarian teachers that nobody likes but can command respect. Being a good teacher is realizing where you are and working towards getting to the middle of that scale. Sometimes you gotta drop your guard and realize that this is a moment to connect and not gain control, sometimes you gotta realize that you're the authority figure to them and act like it. She likely could not deal with them directly and instead found indirect ways to relieve that tension. Unfortunate all around.

i'm pretty sure you've never seen an uncontrollable class in a shit school...

let me set up the scenario. first year spanish was essentially a dumping ground for students that didn't want to be there, so a solid 1/3 (class size was 35 to 40...) of the students were pretty much forced to take the class and many of them were repeating.

so in comes a new teacher (i found out in later grades that the turnover for spanish one teachers was really high), she's friendly and well educated and spent a solid decade living in spain; so she knew the language and knew how to make the class interesting. from the beginning she has issues, language classes aren't easy and many of the students dont give a fuck; many refuse to stop talking during class, they drown out her lecture and make it impossible for others to learn.

she tries to handle the situation multiple ways, friendly requests/demands for quiet/points off/and eventually detentions. none of them worked, they didn't care about their grades and refused to show up for detentions. a few realized she had no power over them and began getting worse, yelling in class/fighting with each other/throwing shit. eventually the worst one got tired of her reprimanding and openly threatened her, he was ~18 and stood a foot taller then her at least...

she hit the panic button (remember i said shit school), he was pulled out of class, and she tried to have him expelled. but there was pretty much a block on expulsions, so he was back within a week and that emboldened the other offenders in the class. so she started sending the worst ones to in school suspension, which actually worked for a time and was the primary reason i was able to pass the damn class. and then the language department head literally burst into the class one day and started yelling at her for "abusing the ISS system", point blank told her that she wasn't allowed to send students there anymore...

so tell me, what do you do in that situation? do you try the "stand and deliver" approach?

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