The16th

In a classroom, disruptive students affect the learning process of everybody. Disruptive students interfere with the teacher’s skill to teach effectively as well as with those good students’ desire to learn efficiently. Disruptive behavior of students even creates tension in the classroom either between/among the students or between students and their teacher. This scenario brings a great challenge to the ability of the teacher to maintain an environment conducive for learning.

If the teacher has to send out the disruptive students of the classroom, the more those students become disinterested in their studies and learn other additional disruptive behaviors along their way. If he/she allows them to stay in the classroom, they will just set a bad example to other students. If the teacher walks out or leaves his/her students in the classroom, then the good ones suffer due to what the disruptive students have done. Learning is jeopardized in all of those options or choices.

Matthew 13: 24-30 also mentions the same kind of dilemma when the man who sowed good seed, though his plants came up and bore grain, weeds appeared also. His servants told him to gather the weeds but he said no. Why? If his servants would gather the weeds, it is possible that they would also root up the wheat in the process. So the man just told his servants to wait for the harvest time where the weeds and the wheat would be collected together but the weeds would be burned while the wheat would be placed in a barn. This means that teacher should give chance to disruptive students to change their behavior and learn to become teachable. At the same time, the teacher should see to it that good students remain to be good despite the presence of disruptive students in the classroom. But in the end of the Academic Year, the teacher should stand as a judge to separate the good from the disruptive students when there is no initial sign of their improvement can be found. Yes, at the end, a decision should be made to reward the good and to punish the evil.