Fear of retaliation from admin for removing disruptive students
Administrators often discourage removing disruptive students and penalize teachers who try, using official policies like student removals as proof of poor performance. This creates a genuine fear that disciplining students will lead to negative evaluations, formal improvement plans, or non-renewal of contracts. Consequently, teachers feel forced to tolerate disruptions rather than risk their employment.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Choosing not to use removal policies out of fear for contract renewal
- 2Writing repeated student referrals that are ignored by administration
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My admin is very anti-kicking kids out of class, even the super disruptive ones, and does little to nothing to intervene or provide support. So, this isn’t really as effective at my school.”source ↗
“I wouldn't trust my right to actually use this power for fear of it being thrown in my face when its time to renew my contract.”source ↗
“Teacher moves to remove student from class; Admin immediately place teacher on a PDP and unsatisfactory evaluation; ... Teacher is non-renewed.”source ↗
“Our admin literally said anyone who uses HB6 is essentially admitting to her that they can't do their job and refuse to educate students.”source ↗
Where this came up
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