Comments on: Getting “Terrored”

By: by other means » Blog Archive » low level disruption

by other means » Blog Archive » low level disruption — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:41:51 +0000

[...] what it can lead on to described very well here on a teachers blog (thank you Gill). I saw these behaviours starting in the higher classes of [...]

By: “I Don’t Get It” | Scenes From The Battleground

“I Don’t Get It” | Scenes From The Battleground — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:47:05 +0000

[...] tendency for students to ignore all instructions and verbally abuse anyone who gives them), and “Terroring” (the intimidation of any teacher who attempts to bring about order in the classroom) provides a [...]

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:20:02 +0000

I just happened upon this blog. I’m a middle school teacher from Berkeley CA. Some things are universal. It just makes my heart warm thinking about all those students, world-wide, using their newly found social skills to operate as a pack to terror their teacher. I love your comments.

By: Toe-Knee-Heart

Toe-Knee-Heart — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:45:18 +0000

So true. So horribly, horribly true.
The worst thing is that the only solution seems to be to get used to it.

Love your blog by the way. Have you ever thought of getting it published?

Toe

By: oldandrew

oldandrew — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:38:03 +0000

“I get this from some kids but acting calm and ignoring it, carry on teaching, focus on those who want to learn can sometimes diffuse the situation. …. Quiely employing the school discipline procedure also helps.”

If it remains possible to both teach and enforce the school rules then you aren’t really being terrored.

By: delenn

delenn — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:32:58 +0000

I get this from some kids but acting calm and ignoring it, carry on teaching, focus on those who want to learn can sometimes diffuse the situation. Getting angry and arguing back makes it worse. I find it happens mainly with year 11 girls. Quiely employing the school discipline procedure also helps. the thing is I’m not usually calm and collect but I can be and it helps. Our lot call it torturing.

By: bob the builder

bob the builder — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:12:54 +0000

And what of the children who want to get their heads down and learn? Do they manage to get any learning in these situations? Its these children that have my sympathy…what do teachers who are being ‘terrored’ do to help them? They are there because they have to be and are not being paid.

By: Clare

Clare — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:37:08 +0000

It seems from comments that this is certainly not uncommon in classrooms nowadays - thank goodness we’re home educating our children. It seems more pointless than ever to put them in schools where any learning that could take place will be totally disrupted by the other pupils.

By: Baz B

Baz B — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:50:06 +0000

Lovely.

Lovely post and lovely reactions in the comments by people who have chosen to take a job to teach children and obviously cannot hack it.

Its not that you are poor teachers, its more that - if you choose to undertake a proffession and react like this - you are poor people.

I suggest a few career changes? You see, sometimes the “tosser parents” might be reading stuff like this and that doesn’t exactly help your cause, does it?

By: blueplantlife

blueplantlife — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:37:12 +0000

‘What are you going to do if we all refuse to work?’

ahahhahaha

As Seren_dipity said, get paid.

Kids can be so stupid sometimes.