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Case: Does not care, should I? There's a student who comes into class and just doesn't care. We try to get him to learn and do work but he says it's pointless. I discovered that this student doesn't have a father and his mother is on every drug imaginable. How can I expect this student to do any work at all or even give a shit about anything we do in school when he has to think about where he's sleeping at night. Everything I can teach him in a classroom means nothing, why should he even care? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) If you think that there is nothing valuable that you could teach him in the classroom then maybe you should not be a teacher. It is obvious that school is an important place for hope, refuge, and stability in this child's life right now. If there is any question that he is being raised in a compromised and unsafe environment, it is our responsibility and ethical obligation to inform administration and seek additional help from them and the school counselor on how to handle a situation like this. After asking the appropriate authorities and allowing them to figure out what to do, it is our job as the teacher to do everything we can for them within the classroom, including never giving up on them and helping them understand why school is important and why they should care. It is obvious you have opened up some level of trust because he told you a very serious aspect of his personal life. You can use this line of trust to slowly create a positive student-teacher relationship and start helping him see that there are still people in the world he can trust, turn to for help, and depend on. Once this relationship is forged, you can build on the positive aspects of life, including school, and help him see the benefits of participating while he is there. If for nothing else, help understand that a strong investment in school will help him to not turn out like a drug addict and provide paths of opportunity for a successful life. Let a counselor or school psychologist deal with his emotional issues, administration deal with problems he is having in his home life and you continue to build a strong relationship with him by providing stability, compassion, and concern. It is when our students care the least that we must care the MOST. |
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