The ASL class that I'm taking this semester has a few young girls (I say young, because they're 18-20, and I'm 34) that like to chat away in a corner of the room. This has been going on since the beginning of the semester, and there have been times when our teacher (who is Deaf) has caught them, and reprimanded them. Why he hasn't split them up yet, though, I don't understand.
This past Thursday, I'd had enough, and I snapped. *I* confronted them, in front of the entire class (including the teacher), telling them that not only was what they were doing incredibly rude to the teacher, it was rude to the rest of us who could hear them. It's as bad as having someone sitting behind you at the movie theater, who won't shut up during the movie!
One of them started crying, though, and I started to feel like crap... but honestly, I'd taken as much as I could take. I followed up with them after class, and told them that I didn't care whether they spent the rest of the semester hating me, that I (and the majority of the class) were there to learn, and as far as I was concerned, they were only an impediment to that learning.
It just burned me up, because our teacher is SO sweet, and deserves much better than that.
We'll see how class this Tuesday goes!