The Importance of Following School Policy

Teachers often feel an uncertain relationship towards the right to run the room, as it were. Children need an adult presence and they need an adult sense of authority in the room. They find it weird when teachers are too democratic about the classroom process. You've got to get the children to agree to the rules in order for them to participate - even if you don't agree less I couldn't agree less. And when you make them malleable, those are the rules most people will want to follow.