Incessant talking in class

[itstimmytime]

My dd is in 1st year at high school and is 13 in December (young for her year). Tonight was parents' night and was not surprised to hear that she talks all the time in class. Sometimes to the point she disrupts the class. She has had this problem at school since she was in primary and regularly had to sit alone.

She is universally liked by teachers who describe her as delightful, friendly, kind, bright, entertaining... They find her persistant chatting frustrating as they feel it will hold her back in the future as do I. She is academic and has been in the top stream of classes since primary, is challenged by much of the work, although not all. She is also popular, but I think she has developed a persona of 'class clown'. I know there are more disruptive children in her class as well, but I'd like to deal with this now before it affects her life chances/results etc.

Anyone had this problem? What did you do?

And getting lots of attention, having fun, entertaining people and being entertained if my DD is anything to go by (and myself at a similar age except I didn't like being told off whereas she doesn't seem to let it bother her).

actually agree with you there as well Jopeg.

Oh she's not boring, but were you implying that about my wean Skidoodly? That's not what I read into it. She's just being a wee shite and needs to get her finger out which she allegedly is doing. Although I only have her (and loyal friend's) word for it .

Sorry, I read boring, whoops. Hmmmm, not sure about bored either - I think, as Jopeg says, she's enjoying entertaining the troops etc and finds that less boring than sitting quietly paying attention.

Giving a set number of questions/comments that can be asked ( ie a limit) during the lesson can be an effective way of reducing constant interruptions if they're reasonably intelligent.
Obv this has to be done by the teacher so he/she must agree.

eg 5 questions/comments allowed and each one marked up on whiteboard so she can see she's only got, say, 1 left.

Then she's not allowed to ask any more / call out etc. Too bad if it's important. So are other people.I'd isolate her, too, but then I'm mean
If she doesn't cooperate she could stay behind and chat to herself.

Such children can be a real PITA ( am thinking of someone in particular here!!)

with your incessant talking
you'r e becoming a pest

name that tune

rabit rabbit rabbit rabbit

LOVE chas n Dave

snooker loopy nuts are we
me and him and them and me

I coudl go on.....

gertcha

Sorry I haven't read all this thread but I thought I'd share a story about a gem of a parent of one of the kids in my form. About the middle of Y7 the boy N started getting a bit chatty and disrupting, class clown type behaviour. Ns mum got wind of this and took a week off work. She sat next to him in every class he had and at lunch and break. At the end of the week of mortification she turned round to him and said if he went back to his old ways then she would pack in her job and do that every day as she wasn't having a son like that. N became a model pupil, he's just left Y13 and is off to university and should get fantastic grades. I think his mother should give parenting classes myself!