I’d like to hear the teacher’s side of this story. To have all these delinquent youth in a single classroom with this low-IQ girl sounds completely unreasonable, unless there was in-classroom support. I’ve had the experience of teaching 26 teenage boys and 2 girls in one classroom in a rough urban setting. It’s pretty hard to get any real teaching done, and staying on top of conduct is also very difficult. If this teacher was the only adult in the classroom, it may have been an overwhelming and chaotic setting on a pretty regular basis. If kids were dancing on desks and assaulting a classmate, I’d be taking a hard look at what admin was doing to support teachers and to deal with misconduct in the building. I don’t hold the teacher blameless by any means, but I’d want to understand the broader situation. Teachers don’t operate in a vacuum.
Sounds completely normal to me. Remember, this happened in a concentrated Democrat parasite nest ("city") where the government schools are little more than pre-prison, institutional acclimation facilities that double as daytime warehouses to keep kids off the streets and out of retail stores.
It can be really hard teaching in an inner city high school. I wonder how big and strong this teacher was, a male or a female. My husband, 6 foot, unarmed combat teacher in the military taught high school in that kind of setting. Really physically exhausting, mentally exhausting, but the fact that he was a college wrestler sparing partner to an Olympic Heavyweight contender meant he could throw a hammerlock on an unruly student and frog march them down to the principals office if need be. On a related subject and comment below, imagine if this teacher had a hand gun and the delinquents in class were able to take it away from the teacher. Something to think about as suggestions are made.
I taught 6 years in East Flatbush, Brooklyn during the late 80’s and NONE of my students were allowed out of their seats without permission. When they did so, they were not allowed to return to their seats (sent to the Dean’s Office) without permission.
It’s about tone; it’s about “rule of law” (that’s right!); it’s about who’s in charge. Period. It can be done. It is being done. It’s just not being done by the liberal teacher (not suggesting you) whose mindset is “Oh dear, what will they think of me if I request them to...”
Deep, deep down, high school kids know that rules/laws can have some pretty mean teeth. Some have been raised without first-hand experience with this. Others (many) have been groomed to see that there are far too many times where this is not the case—school being a place where this happens far too often. My experience has been when kids see the truth about rules/conduct/consequence many (not all, never all) will temper their tantrums. It all depends on what they see in front of the classroom.