How much disruption should a teacher tolerate?
When a teacher enters his or her profession, and embarks on their first assignment in a school, how much disruption and disrespect is tolerable? A. None B. Zilch C. Zero D. Everything to the left When I got serious about my classroom management philosophy, I thought deeply about education. Is it a valuable commodity, or something that needs to be forced upon an unsuspecting youth to torture them or force them to hold still while we foist our questionable pearls of suspect wisdom upon them? It started as a valuable commodity. It still is in many parts of the world. But in our Sibling Society (see the excellent book by Robert Bly), it has often become viewed as some sort of chore or unseemly vegetable or medicine you have to take because it is ‘good for you’. Ask a group of students why they should go to college. ‘To get an education.’ ‘Why?’ ‘So you could be somebody.’ My usual response to this is ‘Well, you are somebody now, so you’re already there–might as well skip college.’ What a h
