@ Micheal-I hear what you are saying about exhausting every option before you give up-I really do, but I have had students this year do absolutely nothing in class. No matter what the lesson was, what the project, activity or assignment, they did absolutely nothing. With that, I have to ask, where is the student accountability. Why is it that no one (but me) are telling them that they are responsible for what happens to them as far as schoolwork and education is concerned? Although I am a resource teacher, the student is not doing nothing because of a lack of ability-on the contrary, it is a behavioral concern. I use a quote that I heard at a MLK youth function as a motivation factor:
"if you do nothing in your teens, you will know nothing in your twenties, you will do nothing in your thirties and you will have nothing in your forties..."
I know I am the teacher in the room-the adult as you would, but we are all responsible for what happens to us-young and old.
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