In a conversation today with my spousal unit, a teacher, we agreed that what needs to happen is that teachers should (all together now) start sending incorrigibly disruptive kids to the principal. Seriously lower the tolerance level for disruptive behavior. Two strikes and you’re out; when you come back you get one strike. If this were done, the principals would be flooded with these students. But as long as this doesn’t happen, as long as the teachers try to soldier on and put up with the disruption, the problem is out of sight out of mind for the administrators. They need to feel the pain. Teachers should find their inner Republican and just shut the system down.
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