Blog #5: exteded comment

I would like to connect to olivia's blog post because I agree with her saying that the author mentions how students who get in trouble more are considered as “bad students”, but in reality they are just more expressive and not every student has an easy time focusing for long periods of time. I know many kids are being punished for being forced to always listen to the teacher because they are the adult in the room and if they don’t listen then they get sent to the office or in some sort of time out. I remember in school when we had to read for about an hour and their was this one boy who couldn’t focus on reading so my teacher got sick and tired of dealing with him and sent him to read in another classroom by himself. I never thought much about it until I actually spoke with him and he mentioned how he hated going to another classroom while everyone else got to read together. It made me feel bad because instead of speaking with him and giving him a chance the teacher chose to place him somewhere else for the rest of the semester instead of giving him another chance. I also agree when olivia mentioned that the school is the one that fails the students because I still believe that some schools don’t allow much freedom for the students to be able to stay engaged and that is possibly why kids cant focus. Some school policies don’t allow students to be able to express their ideas and instead label these kids as bad students for not following the school guidelines, but in reality the school education system should change to help these kids want to learn instead of feeling forced to learn and listen.

Question: Do you think that students who can't be handled is because of the teacher or the schools learning system?

https://www.mentimeter.com/blog/education/how-to-handle-noise-in-the-classroom

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