Dennis Bels

Het is niet migratie op zich dat voor achterstand al zo vroeg in de schoolloopbaan zorgt, wel sociaal-economische (bestaansonzekerheid) en sociaal-culturele (leerrijke thuisomgeving) kwetsbaarheid en een andere thuistaal dan de instructietaal op school.

We don’t have a classroom management problem. We have an emotional regulation crisis that teachers are being asked to handle. Somehow, “classroom management” has turned into: • de-escalating trauma • supporting anxiety and depression • calming panic attacks • breaking up fights • being cursed at, threatened, and even assaulted • being the counselor, social worker, and crisis team And at the same time… we remove the very things that actually help: • recess • movement • art • play • connection Teachers aren’t trained for this. And they shouldn’t have to be. Classroom management was never meant to do all of this. It’s about: relationships rules routines responsibility That’s it. It was never designed to replace what families, communities, and systems failed to provide. And until we stop offloading every societal failure onto schools, teachers will keep drowning under expectations no human can meet.