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Part of The Educator Retention & Wellbeing Series A Systems Intelligence Approach to K-12 EducationWhy are more students disengaged, resistant, and pushing back in classrooms even when teachers are skilled, caring, and experienced? Why Students Push Back examines the growing gap between instructional effort and student response in K-12 education. Rather than framing student behavior as defiance or moral failure, this book presents a systems-intelligence perspective that treats disengagement, disrespect, and loss of learning drive as feedback from an overloaded educational system. Through realistic classroom scenarios, research-informed analysis, and leadership-level insight, this book explains why traditional discipline approaches fail to restore learning and often intensify resistance. It shows how classrooms become the pressure point where policy demands, emotional labor, academic rigor, and behavioral expectations collide. Written for teachers, counselors, administrators, and district leaders, this book does not blame educators for rising classroom challenges. Instead, it clarifies how systems unintentionally transfer regulation, containment, and emotional stabilization work onto teachers, accelerating burnout and eroding professional confidence. This volume is part of The Educator Retention & Wellbeing Series and provides a foundation for redesigning learning conditions that restore authority, safety, and learning drive without escalating control. If student behavior feels harder to manage than ever, this book explains why and what must change at the system level for classrooms to recover.

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