Don't Argue With Me!

What bothers me more than kids who talk non-stop or dance in their seats? KIDS WHO ARE DISRESPECTFUL! I can handle misbehaving if you're not hurting other kids or if you talk so much that I hear your voice even when you're not talking, but I CANNOT handle kids who are disrespectful.
When a teacher (specifically me) asks you to stop shouting across the room, interrupting me, playing in line, and numerous other things...you should STOP! When you stop and then do it again when I turn around, I consider that disrespectful because you know you aren't supposed to be doing it and you're still doing it. You laugh or smirk when I ask you to stop and look around for support from your classmates...there is no support. They gave up on you. They tell me when you're not listening or when you're bothering them. They don't like when you're rude to me and don't listen. They want to learn and you're keeping them from that. They've learned when to not say anything. JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH and KEEP IT SHUT! You also don't need to have a comeback for EVERYTHING. It didn't matter what you did before, just STOP! If you try to argue to cover it up, I'm not going to listen...I'm going to get more frustrated with you!

If you haven't guessed, I got very frustrated with this child today. He can't just stop talking, he needs to give me an excuse or tell me why he should be talking or out of his seat or playing in line or putting his hands on another kid's shoulders or...(insert anything else you could imagine).
Thankfully I am in a portable and it was a nice day (with my door open), so that he could go sit on the porch where I could see him and he could hear us. While he was outside, the kids began telling me everything he's done wrong today...and by wrong I mean he wasn't following my directions after multiple warnings.

This could have been enough for today, but of course there's more! I have bus duty this week and the rule is that the teacher walks in front of the kids to get to their buses so they walk slow enough nobody gets run over. Well, this child didn't want to walk behind me. I warned him twice that if he didn't, he would be holding my hand. You guessed it...he needed to hold my hand. Except, he refused! Of course he tried arguing his way out of it. But before he could even say a word, I said, "No." "No." "No." "No." "No." "No." (after each of his attempted excuses) He still refused to hold my hand until I threated to get the assistant principal. Even then, he tried letting go of my hand and running to the bus. I just stopped and waited for him. If he truly had as much guts as he thinks he does, he would have just run to his bus...we were only 15 feet away from it. My goodness, why couldn't you just listen the first time?

Tomorrow begins a new behavior plan with "Disrespectful", as I will refer to him from now on.