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Student hates my class

by Adrian Schwartz

Mar 24, 2015

I have a student in my high-school Latin class who is not interested at all in the subject matter. He is not actively disruptive, but rather passively in that he refuses to participate or pay attention and he does homework for other classes during the lesson. When I call him out on his behavior, he doesn't seem to care about how I feel about his behavior. He's even openly admitted to me that he finds the subject of Latin "useless" and that he puts very little effort into studying and doing homework. The problem is that while he is among the least motivated of the 75 or so Latin students I have between three different class sections, he has shown the most potential. Despite his lack of interest, he does exceedingly well on tests and quizzes, and despite the lack of time he invests, he does well on homework assignments; it just seems to come so easily for him. He's even the only one in his junior class to receive a gold rank all three of the years he took the National Latin Exa...See More

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