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difficult one
By Jeanine

Hello-
It sounds like she could either make or break your classroom environment. You definitely have to get this one under control or it is over. You must pull her aside individually and give her a choice! 1) She can
stay in the classroom and learn something and have fun with other students and the class or 2) Tell her she can spend her time outside the door watching the paint dry everyday, every minute of science class. Tell her she has a choice. Tell her you don't care about her antics,( not her personally) but you do care about the 25 other students in that class that are here to learn. LEt her

know this with every stern muscle in your body. You are not joking! You look her straight in the eye and tell her that she is on her way to new relationship with you and science class. Ask her what her choice is going to be and then you will hopefully get the right answer. If you don't, tell her to sit outside the door and you will let her know what you will do with her later. Talk to your principal, guidance couselor and get ideas on how to nip this in the bud! The most important thing for you is to focus on the class as a whole! She is not the most important thing, although she is in your mind most of the time. Focus on what is going to be the best thing for the class as a whole and if that means it is better for her to be gone, then that is what is most important for your kids to learn.