Imagine teaching a room full of students, wading through the tedious details of algebra, when a student starts throwing his pencils at his classmates. However, even as the teacher, you cannot do anything to confront or stop this disruption.
Worse, imagine the disruption is more dangerous than hurling pencils, such as a student assaulting a classmate or attempting to attack you.
Now imagine being a student in the classroom, trying to focus through this incident. Or consider being the parent of the disruptive student, left uninformed about your child’s behavior.
This is the reality of many American public school classrooms.
But one bill in Wisconsin aims to reform classrooms in the state. Assembly Bill 614—the Teachers’ Bill of Rights—would protect teachers’ authority to maintain an orderly classroom and teach discipline.