I am always surprised. From my vantage point, the teachers are doing back flips to accommodate students with flexed deadlines for work completion to test re-takes and make up opportunities. Even as we mete out consequences designated in our clearly drawn discipline code, we recognize the developmental stage of our students with counseling, parent conferencing, planning for future success and the like. I am mystified. Here, at the halfway point of the year, there are groupings of students we have unwittingly put together that have become toxic.
Teachers beg for relief and semester seems a logical time for the proverbial second chance.
At first, teachers asked for the offending children to be banished. Conceding to the realities of packed classes in all teams, they came back with the proposal to trade these most trying children among the teams. Parents love it. Children love it. Teachers love it.