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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
I did. At one point I did this thing where I cycled kids out of class for remediation in groups of six and I was surprised by the new set of challenges the small group presented.
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What were the new challenges? I went to school with middle and upper class kids but military school also naturally attracted those kids with personality disorders and violent tendencies but the threat of forcing them to do "PT" (military style exercise for several hours a day after school as an ultra form of detention) just kind of made them chill out in class. We just didn't have ANY problems AT ALL like what you talk about. Plenty of kids were *******s who got PT on a regular basis but it wasn't a systemic problem in school that disrupted classrooms.
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I also have to confess that the overly casual atmosphere may have been entirely my fault thinking I couldn’t **** it up with just six kids and then bam I managed to lol
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We did also have the "benefit"... **** it, benefit of having a large number of teachers from the military who were quick, fine, and not even dickish about doling out discipline. I guess you could say they had an alpha mentality where they knew how to cut kids' legs out from under them and keep them in line in an authoritative, but also not aggressive way that the civilian teachers often didn't have as those teachers tended to act like normal teachers just with more authority. And the best, chillest, and most liked civilian teachers tended to dole out authority in much the same way as the teachers with actual military experience.
Extrapolate from that what you will but it was definitely a thing. I guess experience with actually powerful authority gives you better skills for being in authority than being a bureaucrat?