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Several of my behavior kids run. In fact, every school I've worked in has runners. I tell kids 2 things.
1. I tell them if they run outside, I will call the police.
2. I tell them that my knee is really bad and that I cannot run, but that I will will follow them so that they do not get hurt because I care about them. More often than not the kid slows down to accommodate my bad knee. They don't say anything, and they're still pissed off but they will slow down, LOL
Even the worst kids show empathy when it is least expected. Once I had a runner who put himself in his locker and refused to come out. I worked with this student since KD. I opened the locker and asked him if he was feeling stressed out. The student angrily answered and yell...NO! I then told him that only a stressed-out person would hide in their locker with the locker door shut. He got out and knocked over a huge garbage can (that was bigger than him). All of the trash spread all down the hall. I asked him to help me clean it up, he said NO. I started picking up the trash and said, wow...I can hardly pick this up...my knee is hurting so much. The student (2nd grade) tells me, oh I'll help you Mrs. ____ and picked up every single piece of trash. LOL
That shows you have a good relationship with your students even when they act up.
@CES1- thank you.