Struggling with a rude student
I'm teaching a kids class of five and one of the students is super uncooperative, influences the others to misbehave too. I try to use classroom management but I'm failing to control the student.
At this point I just want to give up and drop the class even though it would be a big chunk of my paycheck. But honestly the time I spend in that class feels like torture and I don't know if I can do this long term.
I'm not really looking for classroom management tips as the staff has already tried to help with that. I guess I'd like to know if it's a good idea to just. Give up. I like kids in general unless they're loud and rude, and this class is exactly that. (edited: see +note)
And the alternative is I could get other (teaching) work by dropping that class and that's going to make up for the loss in salary, just more hours but the work is a lot easier.
What would you do?
Edit: wow coming back to this after 10 hours of my work day and it blew up. Glad to see this sub is as judgemental as ever
But yes, thank you to the ones who offered me the advice I was looking for 🫶
- Here's my original badly-worded statement that brought in a lot of complaints, I've flipped it around since to make it clearer: I don't even like kids in general unless they're quiet and listen to adults and this class definitely does not.