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Usually with a comment like, "When you have to buy your own groceries, pay for your own car and its insurance, pay the utility bills, find the money for the wi-fi and/or cable TV service, you will." If they make that remark about school work, the reply is "You don't have to care. You just have to do it."
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I agree!
*I Care! 😉
Not common enough, especially when a fifth grader is testing their teacher about the level of “care.” Stating that simple fact without discussion or lecture is important in the moment. In my experience with ninth graders. 🤷🏽♂️
I always respond with “what don’t you care about? Breathing? Eating? Going outside? You must care about something …..” then I stand there and look at them. It comes back around when they ask me for something I respond like they responded me….
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That’s a good response. Harder in the moment, but I think that’s great!
I've had a few come backs in 6 years- faves are 'you don't have to care, but you have to do the work' 'ok don't do it- it's not my grade' or my favorite was a senior last year who refused and said they weren't going to do the work 'ok I'll see you this summer- I'll bring the coffee, you bring the pencils. We'll make it work then!' with a big thumbs up! He'd spent the entire semester refusing to do his creative writing work so I'd decided I was done playing around and made it known that if he didn't complete the work he wasn't walking at graduation- in the kindest way I could.
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Yes, that’s great “it’s not my grade”. Helping them understand it and accountable for it.
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If I can tell they are just trying to get a response out of me, I don't feed into it. I pretty much ignore the comment and just praise them when they give the feedback I am looking for. 5th graders are too smart, and they want to cause emotional distress and chaos because they are not getting the attention they need at home.
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Yes, that’s a great insight into it!
i say it back lmao “i don’t care either, do what i asked you to do”
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😂 that’s great
Fair enough- However, I can tell you with 100% certainty that nothing good comes from that mindset, including not passing my class. I
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That’s good!
You’re getting this from elementary kids? What grade do you teach?
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5th Grade, primarily one more difficult student in my class, but there was also one or two from the other class, too.
Okay. Let me document that next to the zero you will get.