"Please show him your wrath"

The other day I was asked by a teacher who was bringing her class to the gym for their class and the first thing she said was, "******** has been having a terrible day. Please show him your wrath." Now, I know there are sometimes I let my booming voice loose when students who misbehave in my class, but something rarely happens in the gym because the kids know that if I have to use time to handle misbehavior then we all miss out on playing time for the games. I also don't have many problems in class because of several different teaching strategies I have adapted and introduced over the years. My "take a break" area is a place I call the "RECHARGE STATION." The purpose for the recharge station is for students to go in and come out fairly quickly. After the first few weeks of school, there may only be one or two students per week who I send into the break area. The students know I am consistent with my expectations and that I do not tolerate horseplay.

I am not trying to say my coworker does not know have adequate classroom management skills, but what she assumes is that I automatically can create anger over a student. First, and most importantly, the problems she has had to deal with did not occur in the my classroom (gym). So, to create a punishment in the gym for something that occurred elsewhere will not help solve her problem. Second, I am not going to get upset or disappointed in a student when the student is showing me respect. I can talk to the student and ask them to try to do better for their teacher, but at the end of the day, the choices are their own.