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Respondent: I think you should have to handle your own problems
unless it's fighting. Ifit's something really bad then you send
them to the office but we are on apolicy where we are all on the
same system. If they get a behavior
warning in Art then they write it down and then I know it. We
followthrough with that. All this kids that were here today were
here becausethey either didn't have their homework or they got two
warnings yesterdayfor behavior.
So I don't know what they did when I wasn't in here so I don't
know.
Interviewer: Right.
Respondent: And no they don't like to be in here but that's
their fault because theydidn't follow through with what they needed
to do.
Interviewer: !ow do you fi" that# $bviously it comes from
somewhere.
Respondent: What# %ot following through#
Interviewer: &ollowing through following e"pectations
following directions. I mean Iguess how do you as a teacher see
where's the starting point of that#
Respondent: (o me the starting point starts in kindergarten
because if the teachers
before me )ust like with academics if all these kids get to me
and *+,are efficient in writing it didn't start with me it started
way back here. Soyou have to look at the whole school and what's
happening as the kids arecoming through. Are the teachers
effective# If the teacher's not effectivethe kids are going to fall
backwards. And so we have a -A/ valuationSystem that's new. All
teachers are evaluated on this -A/ System. Sothen if you get three
I think it's three years of noneffective then youcan be nonrenewed.
So it's not like tenure anymore. Really you have tobe effective now
really to keep your )ob which you should be because a lotof kids
are depending on you.
0ut the discipline all starts with each teacher. ach teacher
even thoughyou have a different discipline system kids learn
behavior from whothey're around. If they don't have any discipline
at home and we noticethat on 1ondays. Are you here on 1onday#
1onday is our worst daybecause they're home on the weekend. (hey
have a lot of freedom. (hen1ondays is our like 2let's get back in
shape2 and then the rest of the weeksort of flows but a lot of
these kids they stay up late and watch. I have akid who said he
stayed up till +:33 o'clock the other morning playing video
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games and then he comes to school. $r they don't have any
discipline athome or they have older brothers and they )ust I had a
kid last year who
was in trouble a lot at home because he had three rowdy brothers
and hewas always getting into trouble. I )ust really have to make
him learn tobehave and he did. !e really did good. (he year before
he had been in
the office +3 times. I didn't send him once last year.
5ou have to work with different kids and every kid is different.
Some kidsare more receptive to your methods and some aren't. 0ut I
think it )ust allstarts in kindergarten and every teacher here has
a discipline system. 0ut1ondays are the worst. We talked about
that. 6idn't we 1iss [0:03:49]#
S4: What#
Respondent: About 1ondays being our hardest day because it takes
a whole day to getthem back into the routine. and then it's better
during the week. 0ut
1ondays are worst day and I'm dreading ne"t week because we're
off fourdays the kids are so then when we all come back on
Wednesday soWednesday will be our worst day. 0ut for the most part
they're pretty wellbehaved. (hey're not physical or anything like
that. Sometimes they don't
want to do what they want to do but that's pretty much kids. If
they were allperfect I guess it would be a perfect world but anyway
for the most partthey're pretty wellbehaved.
Interviewer: $ne last 7uestion and I'll leave you alone. (he one
other thing I wasnoticing is the kids do a lot of independent work.
8ould you )ust talk aboutthat like reasons for it is it working
stuff like that#
Respondent: When did we do 1onday when you were in here#
Interviewer: I guess what I'm referring to in here specifically
is there are e"amples onthe board of this and then the kids
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