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Pigs Can’t Fly 2
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5 thoughts on “Pigs Can’t Fly 2”
These posts on Classroom Management are well-timed. I’m dealing with many students like this, mostly all in one class, right now. I don’t know what to do with them. I believe in them, but they have too many issues that keep them from even being able to cope. I stopped doing CI with them on day 2, and I’m certain we’ll be in the book all year. Yesterday was particularly bad, and I’m only in mid-September. Getting to May seems impossible. It’s literally one day at a time.
I don’t think our schools are equipped to handle these students. We will try everything in our power to help, and some will not change. I think they need to be given something more harsh, like a boot camp with a group of drill sergeants who are on them. Just like new recruits, they would be brought to a breaking point, and then will hopefully submit to the authority.
Have you ever read a sentence that you never thought of before and realized how really true it was, like it resonated w you? After all these 42 years doing this Jake said this and it really rings true for me:
…I don’t think our schools are equipped to handle these students….
I think our schools try to accommodate these students and assimilate them into our schools. I see this in my school, which is a Catholic school but receives some transfers from public schools in the area. The schools they come from are chaotic and violent. There have been some success stories, but we lose students every year because of behavior. We want to be compassionate and think that every kid has a shot at a new start. Fair enough. But, if a student can’t change their ways, they need to leave the school. Schools aren’t social agencies or hospitals. They’re places (or ought to be) where students find order, respect for authority, discipline, etc. This doesn’t mean tyranny, but a place of freedom to do what students ought. This view of school has shifted because our students have shifted. They’re light years different than when even I was in high school less than 20 years ago. We often hesitate before we discipline because we’re afraid it might set a kid off or they may get combative, or at least I get this way sometimes. Students are spoiled because they get away with a lot and then when one teacher calls them out or has “strict” discipline in their classroom, there’s a revolt. Anyone else know the feeling?
What´s working for me is doing more WRITING with these types of classes: Write and Discuss and have them copy in their notebook, dictations, true/false quizzes.
I’ve also found that these types of classes can handle READING better than the aural stories.
Do Storylistening with the stories created in the other classes and have them write a summary in L1 after the story.
Bryan Whitney wrote here a few years ago in the same manner you have above Greg, where he gets through the class by having them do lost of writing. I can’t remember the specific plan but it’s in one of my books w Bryan’s permission. But yeah trying to teach classes w kids like that in them is best accomplished by not teaching them at all, that’s the price the school pays bc I won’t take it on myself if they don’t care about teacher burnout bc of their inability to spot a disaster kid before the fact. Then when the kid is absent you go to town w a Category B or C image. I’m going to save my own skin and get those kids writing, worksheeting, and all sorts of busywork. Then the only real hope you have to rehab the class is if you can get them out in the first months by failing them which they deserve – make sure you fail them, then tell the others that each month you will reconsider their status w the textbook and maybe bc of all the positive comments from the classes doing the Invisibles you can save the class. But if you can’t, DON’T PUT IT ON YOURSELF to reach those kids, which is a very common error made by younger teachers. The fact is that Pigs Can’t Fly. School officials need to get woken up on this, but most can’t. They put it on us. Well, don’t take it. Make life miserable for those few ringleaders in each class. And Jake don’t feel too bad if you have to stay in the book all year. I stayed in the book for all my classes for 24 years. Now that left a bruise and explains perhaps some of the intensity that I bring to this work today.