For teachers, the most difficult part of their job is managing children’s behavior. While they want to spend their time teaching and passing knowledge along to children, they instead seem to spend their days intervening in arguments, calming out of control children and trying to get others to just stay in their seat for a few minutes. For a teacher, this is frustrating. Many teachers who leave the teaching profession do so because of their frustration with their student’s behavior.
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