OH PUHLEAZE.
You are asking that the entire class to stop working, exit the classroom, and lose that class day to appease a single feral student.
Can you imagine what would happen if your policy was applied to all of ghetto America?
Let’s be extremely frank: Those people must be made to fear the white man. It is the only way to force them to adopt and maintain the norms of mainstream society. By allowing them to go off the reservation and live according to their desires we have allowed a feral, violent subculture to spring up among us.
Yup, I am asking that. Because the entire class has already stopped working long before this video started. Kids love a sideshow and that is what they all got.
Not to mention, this is probably not this girls first brush with defiance. To keep learning happen, you remove the audience.
The kids were on laptops. It’s a 2-3 minute process to have them close the laptops, pick them up, and move to a nearby empty classroom or library.
The teacher would have lost significantly less productive time.
Now, don’t misunderstand me, this IS annoying and would not work over and over. My point is to remove the audience and then deal with the situation. That girl should never be allowed back into a standard classroom for the rest of the year. But the way the police officer handled it was just so wrong - and cost a lot of classroom instructional time - and his job.
I was only offering an alternative. I’d be interested in knowing how you would do it differently