{"id":10081,"date":"2021-11-03T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10081"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","slug":"disrespect-trending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10081","title":{"rendered":"DISRESPECT TRENDING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently I am not alone in getting very frustrated with the quantity and quality of disrespect I endure from some students on a daily basis. To be clear, most students are pretty well behaved, but the sheer volume of sneers, snide remarks, and forthright refusals to work from a handful of students is starting to get to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Re-entering the American public school classroom in January of 2021 after nearly a decade away from it, I was never sure if the disrespect was rooted in A) my own classroom management skills being rusty after 7 years of very small classes of generally well-behaved Haitian students, B) my advancing years taking a toll on my patience, or C) the natural immaturity of 8th graders.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today a long-time junior high teacher brought up a possibility I had not considered: she wondered if the prominent disrespect was a result of the pandemic. According to her, teachers were not subjected to this level of disrespect before the arrival of 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She did not have a theory as to the exact mechanism(s) that might spur such a problem and neither do I.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if it&#8217;s a trend, it&#8217;s an ugly one and I hope it is reversible in time.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who knows yet what sort of cultural fallout there might be post-pandemic, especially among the young people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I am not alone in getting very frustrated with the quantity and quality of disrespect I endure from some students on a daily basis. To be clear, most students are pretty well behaved, but the sheer volume of sneers, snide remarks, and forthright refusals to work from a handful of students is starting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10082,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081\/revisions\/10082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}