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Miss Greene's Referrals In The Classroom

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There are several issues with Miss Greene’s referral, the first being the reasons given for the referral seem to be more subjective in nature, rather than objective information about the student’s behavior or academic performance. The teacher uses wording such as, “stubborn” and “she just doesn’t want to learn”. Both of these statements are subjective, or opinions of the teacher and do not provide unbiased information about the student’s issues in the classroom. As the author states in the textbook, referral practices in the past have been inconsistent and bias, noting in the text, “teacher referrals were global in nature and contained subjective rather than objective information in more than half the cases”, (Overton, 2010, p. 25). The
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