Not enough $$$ fro me to spend a day in a HS classrrom. From what I hear the parents are the biggest problem...usually they are suing the teachers...and all their little darlings are victims.
This type behavior is why teachers give up, IMO.
I’m a teacher in Texas and lonestar is right - much of the time the parents act as sophists to excuse their child’s behavior.
Some other points in this case: 1) it is part of the law in Texas that students can be ticketed for bad language. My gut tells me that there is more to the story with this student than a four letter outburst. The kind of language indicated in the article is not what normally gets the student a ticket. 2) If there was instruction going on during this class then the students would not have had time for this altercation. Too many in my profession just don’t get it that the kids tend to stay out of trouble when you are actually doing something with them. Of course, knowing your subject helps too, but that’s another long discussion, isn’t it???
Perhaps in the suburbs the parents are the biggest problem. Not so in the city. Do you realize some high school students have been convicted of felonies, e.g., armed robbery, carjacking, and they’re wearing ankle bracelets? They are disrupting the classroom, turning over desks, and assaulting the teachers.
Do you realize there is an initiative coming out of the Obama administration to even out the discipline among the ethnic groups? If whites have a 5% expulsion rate then blacks cannot have a higher rate.
Just wait till they start applying that principle to incarceration rates.
Respectfully I think teachers give up because they are not allowed to dish out effective discipline these days. They have little to keep an unruly class in line and, yes, little or no support from parents, principals, school boards, Government.
Being a precious little flower will not help this teacher’s chances of lasting in their chosen filed.
My mom was a teacher - this kid would not have spoken out of turn again and good old mom would have kept it in class.
Mel