Teachers who complain about discipline issues are admonished by the administration as weak in classroom management skills and thus bombarded with never ending "professional development" sessions that tout group work and new "strategies." In reality no one really knows what to do with the staggering amount of children whose sole purpose seems to be to derail the entire educational process.
After spending an hour today trying to show kids how to solve equations while simultaneously ignoring the rude child laughing like a loon and crawling on the floor at the back of the room, I can really appreciate this piece. By the way, I chose to ignore as much as possible rather than listen to more crap from the parent, who has expressed the opinion that her child's foolish behavior is triggerd by my unrealistic expectation that he should sit his behind down and close his mouth long enough to notice that s/he isn't the only one in the room... For shame!
http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/11/the_real_crisis_in_the_clevela.html#incart_river_default
By the way, I've been through Assertive Discipline, Active Discipline, Tough Kids, Love and Logic, Classroom Management that Works, Harry Wong, Fred Jones, etc. None of them ever met my kids. Trust me on that.
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