Admiral Rockwell Tory
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Assistant principals will do. I should of said a principle which includes assistants. There is usually at least one available. That being said, if the student's only infraction is refusing to remove a hat (and refusing to report to the principals office), and he is not otherwise disrupting the class, the teacher could simply teach class and deal with the infraction later. The student should get OSS for refusing to obey a teacher.Perhaps 5 minutes for the principal to get there.That's what should have happened. And if the kid refused to leave, then call the principal to come get him.Then why didn't he send him to the principal office?
The obvious answer is he wasn't breaking a rule, or the principal is a conservative..
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How long would that have taken? All the kid had to do was take off the hat!
The thing is, the teacher isn't allow to use force on the student to make him leave. That could explain why the teacher evacuated the rest of the class. I haven't watched the video yet, so I don't know all the details of that incident.
A a former assistant principal in a school with 3200 students, let me ask these people a few questions about getting the principal to come get the student.
What if the principal is doing one of those teacher observations that education bashers claim do not ever happen?
What if their is another student involved in a fight?
What is another student got caught with drugs?
What if another student was suspected of having a gun in his backpack?
There are so many reasons why the teacher is expected to handle these minor disciplinary issues. The kid was being an asshole, but the teacher should not have called him one.
Thank you for your reply. I taught in schools with about a 1000-1500 students the last few years of my career. Usually one of the assistants may be available, but sometimes often not. In my last middle school, there was one principal and one assistant principal. If one is out of the building for whatever reason, that leaves one to handle the load. At least one child out of 800 is having a meltdown at any given moment because of the generations of snowflakes we are producing.
As I said, the teacher made the mistake of taking a teachable moment and screwed up royally. There is no excuse for that except that it would not have been required if the student had simply followed the rules.