The university won't let me anymore. Basically with them it is 2 strikes and you are out. Beyond that they really don't care what we want or who we are, or even care enough to find out. If you request a specific teacher, they MIGHT try to get you placed with that teacher, short of that, it is person A to classroom A, etc. As long as the district is verging on being right, they don't care. Admittedly, the second time they did try, but when their one attempt to find me a decent placement failed, they ignored the situation for 2 months, then placed me at the last second with the one teacher who was willing to take on a student teacher at the last second.
Even in the first placement, I rarely struggled with classroom management. It was really just every now and then in the class with 23 students and usually 1 para (which even the experienced teacher sometimes struggled with this class, who wouldn't?). Anytime I had to help a student with something, the other students would see this as cause to revolt. It was just a bad placement all around. The second time when I was placed in a resource room I never once had problems with classroom management. Of course that was about the easiest classroom to manage I could expect.
I wouldn't mind all this so much, if the students weren't learning and showing their progress. If that is what I failed at, I could see being removed from the program. But when I failed at being social with my coworkers and not stimming, I have a problem with that.
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