Well, today I ended the day by putting Timothy and Donald on Independents. I kept them after school, sat them down and quickly but sternly explained that they were not following the rules, they were disrupting the class (citing a few examples), and that basically half of the "frowny" points were due to them. That wasn't fair for the rest of the class, so they were going on Independents. I explained the concept (if you haven't read it it's in Teaching Challenging Students) to them and they moved their stuff from their desks to the floor next to the desk they will be sharing (it doesn't have book boxes underneath).
My basic strategy for tomorrow is to make their lives as uncomfortable as possible and make sure they lose the Scoreboard game while the rest of the class wins. Wow, I feel mean. :-) More on how it works out tomorrow.
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