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Jenefay-

In my freshman fourth period class there is a young lady that chooses to be a constant irritation. She never brings supplies such as paper for notes, pens or pencils for writing, when she does bring something to write with she usually just scribbles all over the paper. She challenges authority with me and with my mentor teacher saying she does not have to do school work if she doesn't want to and we do not have the power to make her. She disrupts the other students learning by making excessive comments through out work time and is rarely on task. Don my mentor teacher had a meeting with her father (single dad, parents are divorced and moms worthless) who when he heard how she was acting was brought almost to tears. He blames himself for how things are going in her life. A counselor had an idea for how to deal with Jenefay. Every day for that period Don or I should place 5 penny's on her desk and every time she acts up or we have to talk to her we remove one of the pennies. Don didn't care for this idea very much for reasons to do with other members of the class so we did go with it. The problem now is how tomotivate someone who is more than happy to be passing with an extremely low D.

Answer: So far the best results i have received from Jenefay is when i asked her if she wanted to work in the hall and she actually completed an assignment. However I can not just abandon her out to the hallway. I think my next attempt will be to move her desk away from the other students and take some of her fuel away cause its the other students that seem to distract her. If that does not help then maybe she will have to leave the class room and go to In school suspension to do work. If she does not put forth an effort soon she will be repeating this class for sure.