Quotes
This week's blog post is going to be about “trouble makers” Shalaby speaks about disciplining students in classrooms with forms of punishment.She later talks about how these forms of punishments and timeouts are taking time out of their academic learning and prohibiting them having a good attitude towards education. It also questions the way students address troublemakers and students who act out. The reader gets a glimpse into the personal and societal struggles that drive activism in the region.Shalaby speaks on punishments to being late and absent results in suspension and expulsions. Young students who misbehave are often punished therefore missing more academic content leading to failure in school. This also threatens their sense of belonging which leads to drop outs. In fact a recent report published by the Annie Casey Foundation 6 finds that children who do not read pro-efficiently by the end of third grade are four times more likely to leave high school without a diploma. I will be analyzing two quotes, the first addressing the issue in the classroom and the expectations and misguided values. It speaks on how the wrong idea with the word obedience means to students. The quote is the following: “For the word obedience,where I expected a picture of a dog, perhaps, I instead found a young artist who had drawn a row of pupils at their desks sitting straight, hands clasped, facing forward. It was a haunting image and, also, a deeply resonant one.” This quote captures the misguided teachings put on students by teachers and schools to always be perfect and show 100% attention and be a good “soldier” like student. The second quote in the introduction I will touch on brings up the fact that students who act out are looking at something to fix and change. The teachers never look into why the students behavior is like this instead of saying it's a problem. Teachers need to take a step back and see how they can really connect with their students and solve this issue. They can look internally and see how we can learn from these students and apply knowledge to all students. “This book is interested in Anthony, certainly, and in kids likehim,but not what to do about him. I am concerned instead with what we might learn from him about what to do with, and for, all of our children.” This quote highlights the issue between student and teacher and the cultural barriers and how teachers need to understand their students. In fact mentioned in the article, up to 50 percent of novice teachers who leave the profession in their first five years cite student behavior as their foremost reason. This basically states that teachers can’t handle their students because they won’t change and address the students' reasons for acting out and how to correctly go about it instead of punishment that will hinder them academically and socially.
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