What to do about talkers!

[Mainergal2000]

What would you do about talkers while the teacher is talking? We have several people who talk why the teachers are lecturing. They sit behind and whisper continuously and it is very distracting. Now I am pretty easy going person, but this has got to stop. There was this situation that happened with me where the teacher assigned some homework. Well after class, this girl came to me and asked how to do it. She is one of the talkers. I was nice enough to tell her again how to do it. Well right in the middle of me explaining this to her, someone walked by her and she started talking to them and completely ignored me (mind you there were a couple of people that had questions about it too. But I was helping them and they do listen to lectures and don't talk. Then she finished having her chat session and wanted me to start over. I was livid! Did not say anything and went over it again. Also when I first met her, there were a couple of us studying for an exam and she came in and talked about personal stuff instead of the task at hand. What do I do?! I don't want o be rude, but on the other hand I want to tell her to leave and stop bothering me. What do I say, and in a nice way? I have told the teacher about the others talking while she is and how it's distracting and others have said something too. They do give out discipline actions, but they don't. I wish they would because it is affecting those who want to do well and become a nurse. Just venting sorry post is long but very upset and we all pay good money to get a good education.

[Mainergal2000]

I am glad that I did do that. I did apologize just to the teacher for my outburst. She said no need to apologize that she understood. Then before she started lecture she said that if anyone is taking during class they will get a behavior write up automatically. And that my friends goes in your permanent record at school. Class was so much better today!

[COtoLPNstudent]

My class has the same problem...its not just 1 or 2...Its 3 or 4 up front, and about 4 in the back..all talking while the instructor is lecturing..the instructors refuse to say a word, instead they tried to prove a point by giving pop test to the entire class on a chapter we had just started after having a unit test that morning on the chapter before......might I add over 95% of the class failed it including myself. This didnt stop the talking. I find it unfair that everyone else should suffer with a bad grade bc the annoying disrespectful ppl want to talk about who is seeing who and where they partied the weekend before...Other students have complained to these talkers to no avail...I can guarantee when it starts getting rough the talking will stop...hope it gets better for us both.