| Situational Analysis 1 - Discipline During my first year as an instructor, I was involved with a disciplinary challenge between one of my adult students and a high school student. I was lecturing to them on the history of computers when all of a sudden my high school student started to use vulgar language at the adult student. The class immediately turned their attention to the conflict in which I immediately asked the high school student why he was being inappropriate. The high school student said the adult student had given him a racist remark and was dealing with it by doing the same. The adult student and high school student now were defending each other and disrupting the class once again which prompted me to excuse them both outside with me. I called in security and waited for them until we could figure out the ordeal together. I decided to interview the students and classroom to find out what happened. The adult student told me that he lost it and told the high school student to shut his mouth because he was tired of the high school student always fooling around and talking instead of learning and disrupting his own learning (they sat in front of one another). He proclaimed that he did not use racial remarks and simply told him to shut up. The high school students story was that he heard the adult student tell him to not only shut up but at the end turned his head back to his table and slur a racial remark. Interviewing some of the student in the classroom ended up being that some heard the racial remark while others didn't. I believed I solved the situation at hand but not the aftermath. I had both students apologize to each other which did not go well, and had them promise that if they had future problems to tell me first hand. I did not give any punishments or even explain consequences if this would happen again. The high school's student parent had come in to handle things himself and ignore my judgment for not reprimanding the adult and excusing my abilities, the adult ended leaving the class eventually because of the feeling of being intimidated by the other high school students. Of course we did not finish the rest of the class because of this. What could I have done if any to prevent the long term outcome? Should I of left the situation to security and went back to teaching as my R.O.P center advises?
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