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How do you feel about a teacher who cannot control a classroom?

Is it the role of an educator to be a disciplinarian?
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Not everyone is cut out to be a teacher...but some of these kids these days are something else.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SW-User I know a man who was teaching at the lowest rate school in the state, inner city Oklahoma City. He told stories about how they would act in class and talk about getting pregnant when they got old enough to sign up for benefits and move out of the home away from their single mother. They’d cuss the teacher out and he’d have to fill out a form even if all they said was F*** you...spent a good part of his day dealing with those things.
SW-User
@cherokeepatti Ugh! Yes! It's awful.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SW-User hell-hole of a job
FloorGenAdm · 51-55, M
Whoever hired the teacher probably won't let the teacher do anything about it.
greenmountaingal · 70-79, F
@FloorGenAdm You've got that right; take it from a retired teacher. If anything bad happens in the classroom, the teacher is 100% at fault for one main reason that school administrators will never admit: Kids (and their parents) can sue but teachers can't.
thedevilsdagger · 41-45, F
It's all about finding common ground and communicating. No teacher should be a disciplinarian. They should be gentle, loving, and understanding. Children are much more understanding than most adults give them credit for, and part of teaching is example. Discipline only teaches children that they can only get their desired response by inflicting some form of punishment on another. That's no way to teach.
Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M
@thedevilsdagger so when the kid acts up do you go over and ask if they need a hug?
thedevilsdagger · 41-45, F
@Tastyfrzz No, I'd ask them why they did what they did and ask if they need/want to talk about it. I'd also explain that what they did wasn't nice, and I'd explain why.
JustinOnTheRoad · 31-35, M
Kids are brutal. Teachers take a lot of abuse. The principal should be the one where the buck stops though.
ScrewThisImDone · 26-30, F
I feel sorry for them, because they have to deal with the hell-spawn a lot of shitty people call their kids.

It doesn't help that discipline is all but illegal these days, you can barely say no to kids without somebody freaking out about abuse or something.
SW-User
I think it's a teacher's role to maintain order in the classroom so that all can learn. If that means throwing kids out who are causing disruption, then so be it.
I remember an Algebra class like this. Security was summoned to remove this one male student, every. single. day. Absurd and nearly impossible to learn.@SW-User
SW-User
@AnonymouslyYours That is crazy! I work at a youth detention center and we get all the kids who have been expelled.
NativeOregonian · 51-55
It shows that her pupils have zero respect for her and should not be teaching.
SW-User
It is happening alot these days ...things have changed and not for the better
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calicuz · 51-55, M
All the kids need a good whoopin'

 
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