Abstract
Students are both producers and consumers of persuasion in the classroom. As message producers they enact compliance-seeking strategies to persuade teachers to comply with their requests, but as consumers of persuasion they receive requests from teachers that they may or may not follow. Students enact a variety of strategies to resist complying with teachers' requests, classroom norms, and school policies. This chapter explores the various motivators and consequences of students resisting compliance in the classroom and how these behaviors result in incivility, misbehaviors, annoyances, distractions, disrespect, and even student-to-teacher bullying. The chapter further considers the impact student resistance has on teacher-student interactions and the holistic learning experience.