I have a student in a developmental college class who has learning disabilities (no details here because I don't know them either). I am making the accomodations that are required for the student, but he is very belligerent and angry. Today he was 45 minutes late and disrupted the entire class. He is very loud when he speaks and he is angry. Although I can understand his frustration and anger, I have offered to help him during office hours. He complains that I didn't SHOW him where my office is located. He complains that I embarrass him by asking him to participate in the same activities the other students are doing. He implies that I am not doing my job and that he will tell my boss. I have tried to help him, but he doesn't seem to understand the simplest of instructions, no matter how many different ways I explain it to him. Today he really upset the class and I had to pull him out in the hallway to discuss the problem for 20 minutes. I feel that his disturbances are starting to effect the rest of my class, which is not fair to the rest of the students. I'm going to go speak to the chair of my department (my boss) this afternoon, but I am actually getting scared of this student. He's a really big guy and I'm just a little 5 foot tall woman. Other students, how would you like the teacher to handle this if it was your class?
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