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these kind of kids....
By Kalse

I totally agree with you! I'm sick of dealing with helions all the time, too. At our campus, we have small time out rooms across from the principal's office. Sure, the kids are taken out of the teacher's hair for a while,
but to most kids its no big deal to be there. They get to sit and color or even if the teacher sends work they coose not to do it anyway. No lesson is learned. Its a temporary solution to a larger problem. Honestly, if a kid has serious issues they need to be at a special campus all year long and away from everyone else. A temporary time out or suspension doesn't work - they WANT

to get out of school sometimes, so the punishment perpetuates the behavior. We isolate criminals from our society in jails and prisons (where many of the helions are going to end up anyway as adults anyways) so why do public schools have to put up with students BS too? Although we often excuse behavior away by saying they come from broken homes, etc. there is NO excuse for children who PURPOSELY are disruptive or violent. It is a student's CHOICE to behave or not behave in school. If they make these premediated choices, then they belong in a completely diferent environment long term.

As a teacher you can care and care until your blue in the face, but if a student doesn't care even the slightest in retrun, it sucks the energy right out of you. I'm so sick of all the crap students dish out that this is my last year teaching. I have better things to do with my mental well-being than put up with helions.