Culture of Defiance II

I spoke to one of the veteran teachers on my hall today about hard line tactics. She gave me the the whole spiel about how I was too nice and in order to get anything done I was going to have to get real mean. She said "it's all some of these kids understand"! I entered this profession to teach, not to babysit. It 's a shame to see all of the good, hard working students miss out on a real practical learning experience just so we can tend to our "babies"! There's no telling how much more real valuable information we could share and teach if it weren't for all of the useless distraction. Do we have to become monsters in order to create order? This numbers game is an undermining factor. So many of these kids don't deserve to be in this school let alone a classroom but you can't get rid of them because you have to keep up the "numbers". Numbers shmumbers! Are the taxpayers paying for the better education of their own kids or are they paying for something that is only half baked? Many of them really don't care about anything so it seems. When you ask them about the future they have no real decent reply. Their reply usually comes with a bit of a reason as to why they're disgruntled with the school. Very seldom does a student blame themselves for anything. It all makes for a great challenge though and I love it!