tell it to the principal and don't hope there is any solution
you are not completly responsible for them, those students
need more interventions than yours
detentions alone don't work
tell them: I am 90% sure that you are not receiving my credit
and it is not my decision but yours
if they ask what to do: give them multiple concrete
activities to finish with a date
behaviour is not completly a teacher responsibility
good luck
>
> I am a first year teacher (Env. Sci. and Biology) and I am
> afraid I might be starting to lose control in one of my
> classes. I have a few (3) students that do no longer care
> about the work, have refused to do group work (or do an
> extremely poor job at it), and have become behavioral
> problems. This all started after April vacation and I don't
> want them to distract from the rest of the class.
>
> All year, my policy has been 3 strikes and you get a
> detention. I still do that, but the detentions are not
> cutting it anymore. I'm more concerned with the work ethic
> than the behavior. We have 80 minute classes and there is
> always group activities in my Environmental science class,
> which is what they are in. I put the three of them in the
> same group because if I split them up, it's not fair to the
> other members of the group who do the work (group work is
> graded). One of the students is failing for the quarter and
> doesn't care. I cannot FORCE them to do the work. I walk
> around constantly, reminding them to focus on the task and
> they say they are and they will when I'm standing over
> them, but I can't spend the entire class standing over
> them.
>
> I'm finding the work ethic for most of my sophomores has
> plummeted since April vacation- they don't want to do
> anything!!
>
> How do you guys keep the kids on track until the last day
> of school? I'm getting worried about the upcoming weeks :(
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