How did my day go?

I had a pretty good day today. Most of my classes went without a hitch today (as usual). I do have one class that really needs to reach a junior high maturity level. I know it will come but I am not for waiting. The students in this class must realize that grades and doing a good job on everything is very important. The sooner this is realized the better. I have not found much that motivates this particular class. They have not responded to punishment or rewards for doing well and behaving well. Free time, or time designed to get a particular task done, is a weakness for this class. They would much rather do something distracting than spend time getting the assigned task done. I really want to give them some class time to get started on the homework but this time turns out to be wasted time. I do it to be fair. All of my classes get at least a little time to get started on their homework. The rest of the classes use this time in the ideal way. Just venting but if anybody has any ideas to shoot at this veteran teacher, let me know!