Originally Posted by
mhailey
AZ
Don't you think that students who willfully disregard class instructions should fail the course? Hold them back a year, and then see if their attitude does not change. If it does not change, hold them back another year, and humiliate them. If that doesn't work, send them to school on the short bus. Is this not the situation? Can teachers not fail their students? Can students not be held back? what about making "in class participation" part of the overall grade for the course, and if there is disruption, then the student fails that part of the course, and possible the whole class.
I understand that teachers do not want to put up with a problem child two years in a row, and therefore will "pass" the student with a D-, but if the teacher really cared, they would fail the student, and hold him/her back.