I have a few troublesome students who do not carry their load. They sit, refuse to work, antagonize others, disrupt, throw material, laugh, wait for my reaction, and in all waste the time allotted to them to read, complete classwork, or do well on assignments. All of the troublesome students are students who are failing. They are all fully capable of earning passing grades at average level, by properly participating, and being cooperative in the classroom.
Instead, several of them choose to pal around one another, and giggle about their antics for most of their class time. All and then receiving failing grades, which don't seem to phase any of them.
A strangeness of evil exists in all of this. Looks like a few of them are "enjoying" this year, they want to return to do it again....unless summer school is on their agenda?
For my sanity, I can't see these kids doing this again, but there looks to be a few who are digging holes that are unrecoverable. If they don't pass, I will have some of them in my classroom for the third year. That is too much to ask of a secondary English teacher, who wants to keep her sanity.
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