Please help. Teaching 3-5 in a very poor area. Half kids have IEPs, other half has crisis plans. I'm ready to give up and it's only been a week.

The other teachers are extremely positive, but the kids are wild. No discipline, no respect, I have no control. I have spent the past week standing in the hall, practicing entering the room multiple times one at a time bc we can't do it correctly, and the rest of the time implementing the individual discipline procedures. Haven't even had an opportunity to teach. The kids parents are gangsters and drug dealers. They have no support or structure at home. Idk what else to do.... I can't teach, kids are fighting and smacking lips, throwing things at me and talking out and back to me constantly. I have no break between classes. I'm ready to give up. Any suggestions?

Submitted August 08, 2013 at 05:33PM by danielle3625 http://ift.tt/2fKJgOn