This is the second in an eleven part ramble:
Is there a “cell of defiance” led by one single kid, a group leader of a few other kids, being built in your classroom right now or already in place? Do such uniquely and intentially troublesome kids really exist? Are the other kids victims because the teacher didn’t stop the defiance in time by seating charts, phone calls and other means? Do those other kids get pulled into the vortex of this oppositionally defiant student? To what extent is it true that this kid must be stopped or the entire class will be lost for the year? Can we actually solve problems like this one? Should the kid be allowed to stay in class? Under what conditions? Once they have stopped acting out, to what extent does their negative energy poison, in silence, the classroom? Do such kids want to learn? What are they doing in our classrooms?
Further complicating things is the idea that, in comprehensible input, we are bringing to our class a higher vibration with increased human energy. This represents a problem to the kid who needs choas in order to feel stable. What do we do with those kids, the pigs we might never get to fly?