I knew better......

The distractions around the classroom seem only to be distractions to me. The students are unfazed. A boy I'd guess to be about 7 wandered into the 6th grade class I was teaching. He stood quietly off to the side for about 15 minutes and then disappeared. As far as the 6th grades were concerned he might as well have been invisible. The little children peering through the window into my 5th grade class were disturbing no one, except me. That is, until I called attention to them by shooing them away thus violating a cardinal rule of teaching, "ignore behaviour you want to extinguish". The English teacher came to my aid and closed the shutters.