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Thou shall not pack up early nor line go to the door early, thou shall be in thy seat when the bell rings.
SAME! It’s the what teachers know-will-happen-when-they-line-up-at-the-door misbehaviors:
“He’s touching me”
“There’s water all over the floor”
“Can we go? My phone says it’s time”
I love clicky pens. I had a student that I had 3 periods his senior yet. He would hide all my clicky pens during his TA period This was 10 years ago. I have threatened to send his 3 young children bulk size boxes of clicky pens.
I don't do gum chewing in my classroom at all. I cannot stand to hear anyone smacking on gum and have no problems making kids get up and spit it out. It can be so distracting.
Students loudly and rudely yawning. I will stop talking, look directly at them with just a touch of a rueful expression and say, “You bore me too sometimes, but I don’t rudely yawn out loud, now do I?” Then I go back to teaching like it never happened. They almost never do it again. 😁
I check out their art kits and treat it like a text book, if you lose the carving tool, paint, brush etc then it sucks to suck and you have to pay for your own replacement. This was a step up from previous years when I had students go through a dozen brushes because they never cleaned them out or in one case the student practiced his "Karata (sp)" on it.
probably who he was imitating
seating charts and/or moving chairs/stools to sit with friends.
I'm a building and anytime I go into a classroom, I make them match their seating charts. If the kids tell me that they are outdated or inaccurate in any way, I tell them they will match the charts available to me or get marked absent/written up.
If there's no seating chart and they try to move chairs or stools to congregate with their friends, I tell them point blank "If there isn't a chair where you want to sit, you can't sit there.
I'm not their parents or a custodian, and I absolutely refuse to re-set a classroom that has had all its furniture moved around.
Students who leave a mess. I have to be in the classroom all day. They enter the classroom clean. They should leave it the way they found it. I do NOT like cleaning up after them.
Banging on their desk with a pencil or marker to annoy their classmates and of course, me!