Subversion At Its Best

I think the biggest thing I encounter with my Coop is her classroom management skills.  She allows students to misbehave in various ways and ignores it.  Several times I have noticed that she saw a kid misbehave yet annoyed it.  When I bring it to her attention she said she did not realize it.  An example was a student smashing another students hand in a textbook, the student then begin yelling that his hand hurt asking why the student did that.  The student was loud enough that it caught her attention, she looked at him, listened and shrugged it off.  I later bought it to her attention and she said she did not know what happened and she did not ask.  Now when I see a child doing something, I address them myself in front of her, to let them no that the behavior is wrong and I will not tolerate it.  This type of things occurs numerous times with behavior, bullying and other things.  I always talk to the students directly and sometimes pull them aside depending how bad the behavior is.  I also take the time to get to know the students on a personal level and I really believe this helps out with their behavior problems, and helps them listen to me.  I always ask her questions about the students and she never knows or understands whats going on in their lives.  I always tell her about different students hoping she realizes the importance.  When I talk to the students I try to be firm and not pleading with them as she sometimes can be and I hope she notices that since she agrees that they listen to me more.  Lastly, I took a stand.  When my Coop calls on students and they give not great answers she makes a face and says okay and sometimes even joins in when students laugh, I was teaching a lesson and the students began to ridicule another student, laughing because of his answer.  I immediately let them know that we respect each others answers, we are entitled to different answers and even to disagree with others answers, but laughing and making fun of others will not be tolerated this is a community and we will all learn together. My coop heard me and said nothing, I have yet to see a change in this aspect.