Have you heard about the new class that all schools have included in thier curriculum? It was completely by accident, but it is there now and many teachers are wondering how they can get rid of it. The new subject is called Disrespect and it plays a major role in classrooms all around the country. Students would rather talk during class than listen to the teacher. They end up not learning anything except all of the new gossip around school. It is the students' responsibility to listen, but it is the teachers' responsibility to end it. Many teachers don't do anything to get people to listen. I personally only had one teacher who didn't tolerate talking during class. The kids who end up wanting to learn can't and then everyone's education suffers. If people want to take the Disrespect Class, they should take it outside of the classroom.
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Students who talk during class should be punished by the teachers. It's part of their fault too, they must show the students that they have the power to get them in trouble.
I like your style! Although there are gradations of disrespect not limited only to talking in class.
Many of my teachers have those "head bangs desk" moments when it comes to getting the students to cooperate. Most of the time I do ignore them but they easily get to my nerves. Honestly, I just want to yell at them and tell them to take the conversation somewhere else.
This is a sad situation. So many teacher's I know have given up the profession because of it, and many a Chemistry class has been ruined by Girl A behind me asking Girl B across from me for various tips on her romantic life.
Sometimes it just gets out of hand, and, yes, in part due to the teachers.
Still, as the saying goes, "Kids these days."
I have also been in classes where the talking has been out of hand. Sometimes, though, I think the talking is fine-like when a teacher doing administrative work with a student or out of the room, and no teaching is going on.
The work is when the class is doing free work, the teacher is tolerating soft talking, and people start yelling or making noises to show they can. That just calls down wrath for the entire class.
The disrespect can be taken many different ways. I've seen a student get mad at a teacher and actually yell at them in front of the whole class and then walk out on the teacher. I've even seen a teacher tripped before. The student was suspended, but they were the kind of person who considers suspension from school as a vacation. They need to make a lasting affect on the students or they won't change. In one of my classes a long time ago, the kids had no control. They would talk during notes, tests, quizzes, basically anything they could get away with. The student teacher who was teaching at the time did more than any other teacher or student teacher for that matter that has done anything about the disrespect. He took away their tests if they talked, he made them sit outside the room, and he made them stay after school if they talked and had been warned to stop talking more than once. He was the best student teacher I have ever seen at handling disrespect. If more teachers would fight the disrespect in their classes, people would do better in their classes.
Ugh. This is getting out of hand. My class talks all the time, the teacher doesn't do anything, and the kids who do want to learn can't. The kids who talk somehow understand everything in the class, the kids who are trying to learn don't, and then they fail all of the tests because of the people who talk. That's not fair.
Well, it's come to an all time worse. The same kids that have been causing the problems in the class kept talking during the last test they had and the teacher didn't do anything about it. Teachers should be able to kick them out if they talk everyday during the lecture.
Hmm...Nice of people to talk during our test today. And they didn't get their tests taken away or thrown out of the classroom. How come the only person who never put up with disrespect was my student teacher who by the was was the best student teacher I had ever had and anyone who has him as a teacher will be very lucky. Anyway, shouldn't the professionals be the ones who know how to treat disrespect and instead of the student teachers?
Teachers SHOULD be professionals who know how to manage a classroom and maintain the attention of the students. Unfortunately, with endless changes to the mandated standards, high stakes testing, teaching to the test, increased expectations of teachers-as-parents, teachers who started teaching ten years ago are now TIRED and at a complete loss as to how they should manage all these expectations, because the training they receive on each new initiative is woefully lacking. That was a run-on sentence. Don't write like I do! But try to have some empathy for the challenges your teacher is facing. The money they make is not enough for all the work they have to do.