Let’s retire this classroom “strategy”: 👉 Putting your quietest student next to your most disruptive one and hoping they’ll magically balance each other out. Here’s the problem: ✅ Quiet ≠ emotionally equipped ✅ Quiet ≠ unaffected ✅ Quiet ≠ your classroom manager Those “easy” kids are still kids. And just because they’re not throwing chairs doesn’t mean they should be used as buffers. Classroom management is your job. Not theirs. Instead of using calm kids as shields, try this: 🔹 Move your stud