What do you call students who copy or police classroom instructions?

“He elopes from class because it’s boring and it doesn’t provide enough dopamine and because he can. He throws chairs because he has 0 frustration tolerance”source ↗

“A class I had last year of 23 was ruined due to to a single student, who routinely would hop up on his chair and pull down his pants (he had shorts on underneath thank god) screech like a hyena, throw things, run around in the hallways disrupting other people’s classes”source ↗

“My school absolutely refused to discipline anyone for anything, for reasons beyond my comprehension.”source ↗

“What happened in our society that we can’t do anything about behavior like this?”source ↗

“All the strictest teachers in my building (I'm one of them) basically just get badmouthed by students and they go take refuge in the lax classes where they can get away with murder.”source ↗

“I would flair this as humor but I am so over it. It is week 4 here. And I am going to lose my mind with a small pack of freshmen boys.”source ↗

“Moving them? Doesn’t work. Calling it out? Doesn’t work. Calling/emailing home? Doesn’t work. Zeros for no work? Doesn’t work. Ignoring it? Doesn’t work with a huge side of pisses off everyone around them. Isolation? Not possible in my packed class of 36”source ↗

“And I’m left feeling like a mug for being overidden.”source ↗

“This job is a pain.”source ↗

“Anyone else got any stories of being outmanoeuvred by kids to make me feel better about my powerlessness?”source ↗

“I’m in middle school and my last period of the day is 30 kids that are usually bouncing off the walls who I refuse to talk over.”source ↗

“A random 6th grader comes running into my class and before I can say anything, the weirdo decides to jump over one of my stool and did a piss poor job at it. Hits his nuts against the stool, falls over and yells OW MY BALLS!”source ↗

“After 10 years of teaching high school, 6-weeks of Middle School has Nearly Broken Me”source ↗

“My room is TRASHED by the end of the day: pencils, paper, etc. I pick up SO MUCH trash by the end of the day.”source ↗

“And maybe it's just me, but they NEVER STOP TALKING! Three of my seven classes have to constantly be reminded to STOP TALKING while I am talking.”source ↗

“First year teacher. My biggest realization (and annoyance) is how horrible parents are at parenting now.”source ↗

“no I am not tolerating your child giving me attitude and being disrespectful because of their ADHD you refuse to get them medicated for.”source ↗

“In my experience, the stricter more structure teachers don’t get roses, we get the discipline problems.”source ↗

“I feel disrespected and honestly unsafe.”source ↗

“What should I do? He seems unpredictable. I don't know how to reclaim respect in my class.”source ↗

“I put a spotlight on kids who act out. You want attention? You're getting attention.”source ↗

“I tried all sorts of things to get these kids to engage, but it was a losing battle. I spent far more time stamping out fires from the behavior kids than being able to teach.”source ↗

“I swear to God, kids this age can find any reason to complain. I was showing clips of movies in class to give visual examples of different types of conflict and some girls raised a stink because, "We just want to take notes and be done."”source ↗

“The constant heckling. Heckling each other. Heckling me. Correcting me on EVERYTHING.”source ↗

“Yelling at each other. Yelling at me. Yelling my name over and over to force me to stop my conversation, only for it to be some random fucking off-topic-bullshit.”source ↗

“CONSTANT INTERRUPTING. ALWAYS. It's every single kid talking over people.”source ↗

“They break my stuff; accidentally and on purpose. They break the school's stuff. The furniture.”source ↗

“They are so exhausting. None of them know anything about boundaries. You try to teach them and admin reinforces your lack of boundary-havage.”source ↗

“It reaches the point where I was trying to answer a student's question about the work, and I can't even think of what to say. It's like my voice gets smaller and smaller. And in fourth period, with 30 minutes left to go, I couldn't take it anymore. I stormed out of the room (and I slammed the door... yes, I shouldn't have done that), and in the faculty room I broke down.”source ↗

“I’ve learned quickly that it’s just that age and they find everything “cringe.””source ↗

“7th is far worse, behavior wise and attitude wise. in my experience, at least 8th graders will actually talk to you if they're unhappy.”source ↗

“I have one class who doesn’t respect me at all. They’re disruptive, they argue with me anytime I set classroom expectations, and yell at me constantly.”source ↗

“I rotate to has behavior issues that so far nothing seems to work on. What really makes me feel terrible though is that in some of my classes, I have kids leaving in tears almost every day. Not because of their behavior, not because of anything they’ve done, but because their classmates make the learning environment so unbearable that they are sobbing and inconsolable at the end of every class.”source ↗

“it's been actually impossible for me to get them to sit quietly and listen to a book read aloud or listen to instructions for a worksheet.”source ↗

“It gets so loud with them that I have other students (the few only good ones) covering their ears and having like mental breakdowns.”source ↗

“One big issue here is I'm assigned classes that are massive, with like 30ish kids and I can't possibly keep an eye out on all of them at the same time.”source ↗

““Why does Navy get to do whatever she wants and we don’t?!””source ↗

“It gave me pause to realize that yeah, actually they do notice that we have to coddle this girl and it’s unfair to them.”source ↗

“I’m a younger-looking female teacher, and I’ve found that when I’m friendly, students sometimes seem to assume I’ll be very lenient. Then, when I set firm expectations, enforce boundaries, and don’t let things slide, some students almost seem resentful or surprised by it.”source ↗

“So I gave my chattiest class new sreats today. One girl was defiant in moving to her new seat because her "nemesis" was in the same row as her...5 seats in between them though (with Students in them!)”source ↗

“One boy pleaded with me to not be in the front row (yet he is a talker and being close I could easily make him quiet). Wasted 10 minutes of class time by not going to his new seat.”source ↗

“Another girl went to the art teacher after my period to have her write an email to me asking about changing seats.”source ↗

“Today I had a 5th grade class of 80% boys. Impossible to move them around, because they all talk to each other.”source ↗

“The same lesson plan that I can get through all the activities of at the other school I only get through 2 today. Mainly due to disruptive talking.”source ↗

“I just feel really conflicted and jaded about the profession in general.”source ↗

“my students would intentionally scream to set it off.”source ↗

“I raise my voice when students get too loud and belligerent.”source ↗

“Time and place! School should be comfortable for everyone, and not everyone feels comfortable around swearing.”source ↗

“I’m bad at getting kids to shut the hell up and stay silent”source ↗

“Nothing I did worked and it caused me serious stress (just the constant stalking, attitudes and clowning/ragebaiting that happened.)”source ↗

“my first year teaching elementary and i am already failing.”source ↗

“my students cannot listen to me, some cannot stay in their seat, many instantly cry when they dont get their way, almost all of them interrupt me.”source ↗

“some also argue with me and even throw tantrums. when i have them do their work or practice handwriting for punishment, some of them throw a fit.”source ↗

“i dont know what else to do?”source ↗

“So I'm a first year teacher teaching grade 10 woodshop, and the expected happened today about halfway through a 2 hour block - a student cut themselves when their hand saw skipped and ran across their finger.”source ↗

“Well, that good intention devolved into a handful of students talking over everyone else, repeatedly asking to leave early because of the incident... and generally being even more disruptive than usual.”source ↗

“A different student threw an object down the hall that hit me square in the face. Straight to the principals office.”source ↗

“I've never seen children destroy classroom materials just because they can.”source ↗

“Let's just say this approach the first few weeks felt like a disaster, students refused to listen to me, I felt like a phoney”source ↗

“Has anyone else had a similar miscalculation or acceptance that classroom management might always be a struggle for you?”source ↗

“I really, really want to know who decided this kindergartener can go to art class without his aid.”source ↗

“2 kids sobbing, 1 in the bathroom that ended up with a different class, twenty minutes standing in the rain waiting for the fire department to clear the building.”source ↗

“What do you call this? Is there an official name? What do you call it colloquially? And, more importantly, how do you deal with it, both in the situation, and to stop it happening in the first place?”source ↗

“So I’m an educator and I’ve absolutely seen these behaviors and have totally agreed with you in many cases.”source ↗

“I currently have a 7th grade boy in my art class that I am struggling to control behavior wise. This student is consistently swearing, making inappropriate jokes, and overall disrupting the class with his behavior.”source ↗

“I have tried multiple tactics to get him to stop, (warnings, grade lowered, switching seats) with no change.”source ↗

“Today I finally had enough and sent him out of the classroom after making a sexual comment about one of my family members.”source ↗

“All I can think about is how he is going to come back to class tomorrow and continue right back up. I have had this student in the past and no amount of punishments and write-ups has controlled him”source ↗

“I am unsure on how to move forward, I have reached out to admin but due to a recent power shift I have not heard a response.”source ↗

“I have one class where I thought I had the perfect arrangement, but because it’s still the beginning of the year students are moving around so I got a new student and now nothing works anymore.”source ↗

“Now this new student is very disruptive and is taking the whole back row with him, so obviously I have to separate them, but I don’t know where to put him.”source ↗

“It's not just one or two, it's an epidemic.”source ↗

“For some reason, these kids will not respect me.”source ↗

“And yet they are still fed up with me because I keep enforcing the rules.”source ↗

“It just broke my heart to hear them talk about me like that.”source ↗

“First year middle school math teacher here just to say “same”. 😔”source ↗

“I recently purchased a little portable amplifier that I plan to use in the classroom so I don’t have to yell. My voice has been shot for a month now. I hope it helps! I wish you the best!”source ↗

“They are disrespectful and rude, and I know part of it is from their brain getting so overwhelmed so quickly and that their parents permit them to talk to them like that at home.”source ↗

“at the start of the school year kids will complain about my class being boring, how they don't want to be there.”source ↗

“Literally I was almost crying myself! I hate how often I have to raise my voice because it’s the ONLY WAY they’re going to listen to a word I say. I hate how the same students keep leaving in tears.”source ↗

“It’s beyond frustrating that one student is allowed to destroy the learning environment for 29 other students.”source ↗

“7th is the worst. Totally unhinged shit and they don't even know why they do it.”source ↗

“Cussing at teachers, apathy to work, refusal to follow basic directions are now commonplace in schools, and I just don’t remember it being that way when I was a student.”source ↗

“it’s bringing a lot of regret because instead of teaching I have to spend a lot of time teaching and reteaching expectations, writing referrals, and emailing parents.”source ↗

“I get the "why do you never smile" comment here and there and it's always the class that just can't act right.”source ↗

“Just when the whole 6-7 thing finally started to die away, I now have this annoyance to deal with.”source ↗

“I have one student that is ruining every single day for me and the rest of my kids.”source ↗

“I feel so stressed and feel like I don't have good control of my classroom.”source ↗

“I feel like nothing is working.”source ↗

“Im tired of feeling like a failure.”source ↗

“The boys are the most annoying part of this career and it's why this will be my last year God willing if I find something else.”source ↗

“Does anyone has any tips or strategies for an adhd 9years old kid who is always disruptive when I teach ?”source ↗

“How can I get them to focus: they are always disturbing their neighbors, walking around, doing everything despite what they are supposed to do, playing with stuff. I really need help 😭”source ↗

“No amount of “different band aid” activities will make it seem fair that the student who is constantly disrupting things gets to do all kinds of things that typical students don’t.”source ↗

“I came back to teaching lower elementary after leaving due to health reasons and not feeling supported after getting punched and kicked by a student in elementary.”source ↗

“I have 3 high behavioral students in my class and it is stressing me out. All three get destructive when they don’t get their way or get consequences for their actions.”source ↗

“They have broken my things, ripped stuff off of the walls, kicked tables and chairs, and even destroyed other students things when they get upset.”source ↗

“After the 5th room clear this week, I was so exhausted, I was so tense, and even my IBS is flaring up once more. I am unsure how to keep going.”source ↗

“Seniors do it too and I can't stand it either”source ↗

“It’s driving me insane too.”source ↗

“One or two inevitably end up sobbing just before we finish because they dread going to the next class due to chaos caused by other students. It’s a terrible situation.”source ↗

“discipline and noise is the biggest problem”source ↗

“no matter what we do the noise always escalates and sometimes I feel helpless to stop it.”source ↗

“Psh, this is year 10 for me and I still have struggles with classroom management.”source ↗

“Omg yess. I will never forget my first yr.”source ↗

“I told four totally checked out Grade 11s that they would not get their diplomas if they didn't pass my class, and they actually believed me and started doing work for maybe the first time in the two years I've been teaching them.”source ↗

“The problems were obvious: admin ignored the notes from the elementary school and left a friend group of boys that hadn't had a credentialed teacher in three together, and they tried to make it their hang out room on day 1.”source ↗

“Admin didn't address it for three months. I wrote more referrals than I had in my career combined.”source ↗

“Then you walk inside a U.S. school and the children do whatever they want with zero consequences.”source ↗

“Everything you described is true about these kids—pencils & papers are everywhere, assignments are late/forgotten, there’s so.much.friend.drama, they talk nonstop and need constant redirection.”source ↗

“I endured fifteen years like that because I am a single schoolteacher with bills to pay. It's a miracle that I got through it.”source ↗

“Literally just yelled at my tenth graders in almost every class period today for this”source ↗

“these kids are out of control and seemingly don’t respect me.”source ↗

“I feel discouraged because it’s not all the kids, but a few who simply don’t care about anything I have to say.”source ↗

“I care if they disrupt my class. Swearing in my class usually disrupts it.”source ↗

“I don’t care up to a point. I redirect and ask them if there’s a better word they can use. But if it’s constant or something really bad we have a problem.”source ↗

“Physically throwing objects and breaking things. It scares the other kids including my daughter!”source ↗

“Explain which SPECIFIC students are being disruptive and that it’s difficult to pay attention.”source ↗

“With 8th graders, they’re just so afraid of being seen as cringe and just roll their eyes at everything. But with 7th graders, it’s a whole different level of disrespect and immaturity.”source ↗

“Took me at least 5-6 years to recognize my own progress and I didn't feel unbreakable”source ↗

“I have got a kid with down syndrome who becomes hyper energetic after 2 hours of being in the class . He stands up and walks in the class, hitting other students, licking his entire body ( hands, pants and even his table ) , showing me his midle finger and being stubborn.”source ↗

“Any ideas how to make him sit down?”source ↗

“She would always get ready to tell the lesson of the assignment but then she just gets interrupted consistently then she gives up and goes back in her chair”source ↗