9- Preston k Effects of a strategy

 

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The typical High School classroom. Most imagine 6-7 rows of desks all leading to the front of the class evenly spaced and made so every kid could have a fair and equal education. 

To be honest that really is how 90% of classrooms are configured nowadays but it's deeper than just desks and the way they face. Classrooms are segregated by kids and their personalities. For example, there are 3 loud kids in a class or 22 kids. The teacher doesnt want all three of the loud kids together so they get divided into each part of the classroom. After being divided, one of the loud kids may quit because they were moved to the part of the room where they know no one in the quiet section of the class. While the other 2 find connections and spread the chit chat making 2 other groups of talkative people. Taking this there are now 3 main groups of a classroom. Even Though there are 3 main groups there usually are others that fill in the gaps such as kids that are quiet but associate with one of the groups. Classrooms are more of a strategy than anything else in my opinion.

In one of my classes each desk is facing towards the board with about 8 rows. At the beginning of the year everyone got to choose their own seats allowing for all the friends and people who know each other to be beside each other and the whole class was quiet except the group of talkative kids. After the teacher noticed the seating chart was switched up separating everyone from each other. Even Though doing that seemed like an effective strategy it didn't work at all. All the kids that knew each other and that were loud started to yell across the classroom and forming new relation in the class instantly like a virus spreading through a closed room. Even though the teacher strategies to get a quiet classroom they formed an even worse one.