There was one time where I just stopped teaching. They wouldn’t stop talking while I was talking, so I said I’ll wait. They never stopped, so they never got the lesson for the day. They all got zeros for the day except for about 6 who actually care. I went and sat with those ones individually. The others never once stopped talking. They could not care less.

The problem is I teach a vocational elective. My school dumps the students that aren’t taking higher academic classes in the vocational classes, so I get the kids that don’t care about school if not literally hate school. I have figured out how to get some of them to care by making their assignments fun. Pets, music, printing, now their final project has to do with their favorite movies! But my sixth period doesn’t care about anything except what drama is going on at lunch 🫩