Student Voice/Disrespect in the Classroom

Student Voice/Disrespect

 

Consider how you’d like your students to think of their school - a prison. A factory? A Containment? A Community?  A place of learning and exploration for their future?  So many options, but so many are pessimistic.  How do you begin to erase or dissolve those negatives and begin fostering agency, appreciation, accountability, and positive relationships?  How about bringing in students to have a say in what is going on in the system that affects them directly?  

 

Schools are not supposed to be organizations of domination, are they?  I’ve known and worked with too many who do consider exactly this premise for schools - and those people tend to be rather mediocre and insecure in their relationships.  Rather, if we foster a culture of community and involvement, where students have the agency to have their voices heard, we begin an evolution into how our systems can change for the better.   

 

Without the buy-in of students, and the community, we begin to foster an “Us versus Them” mentality which is antithetical to our mission, is it not?  If we bring in and listen to all student voices, then, perhaps this will bleed outside the walls and begin some of the healing that needs to occur for families and others in the community.  

 

Having students take control and power (not complete, but they have the investment - be it through peers or themselves) can create a strong bond and relationship with the school, teachers, and others - so these growing concerns of disrespect in the classroom, the hallways, the building, the community can begin to dissipate.  It can happen only if we work together.  

 

Remember, too, schools have a 1-14% effect on student outcomes - so by bringing in the community and allowing them to be heard in a safe and respectful way, we are helping the other 86-99% of their lives indirectly.  

 

Think about it. 

Why Student Voice Matters

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