We've spent years making teachers less authoritative in an attempt to "build relationships."
But students don't need another friend. They need an anchor, an adult who can hold steady when the chaos of the world around them doesn't.
Your culture is defined by the worst behavior you're willing to tolerate. Not your values on the wall. Not your mission statement. Not your good intentions. It's the small compromises. The little rationalizations. The "just this one time" that becomes every time.
When one student is allowed to derail every lesson, it’s not just the teacher’s sanity at stake but the intellectual development of every one of their peers in the room.
Classrooms aren’t able to support every action of every misbehaved kid that walks through the door. They’re places of formation for those who are willing and able to learn. Every day of lost instruction is a theft by the former at the expense of the latter.
And when good teachers are disempowered to manage this problem, they leave, replaced only by those willing to tolerate it.
You mean that ability grouping, an intuitively obvious idea, works better than arbitrarily shoving kids in a classroom based on their ages?
I honestly think the common sense of the average person would lead to better educational outcomes than do the fake pedagogies and theories handed down through teacher training programs.
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