Chapter 3

When I read this chapter it made me laugh. I had just had an experience with one of my students that made me wish I had read this chapter earlier. As I am in the classroom I am learning more and more that I really need to be willing to put my foot down every once in a while. I can't be a friend, and I can't be that nice guy. Where the book talks about punishment and being firm is where I would have really benefited. The teacher had left to go talk with another teacher, and the students started talking about underwear when they should have been reading about history. So while smiling I asked them to stop, and some of them listened, except this one obnoxious girl in the front of the classroom. Every time I told her to stop she talk back to me as if I was the one in the wrong. I should have sent her to the office the moment she was indignant.