Bravo, for the teacher in showing some backbone. If no one confesses for the crime the whole class pays. If the teacher keeps it up then the other members of the class will punish the perpetrators more than the teacher could.
It’s wrong to punish a whole class for the actions of a few. How many times were we ALL kept after class or ALL had to write a sentence 100 times or whatever because one or two misbehaved. Teachers should punish only the perpetrators not everyone!
I have always hated the idea that the whole class should be punished because of the actions of one or two kids. I never saw where it worked & the guilty ones liked getting everyone in trouble. It’s up to the teacher to discipline the ones who misbehave-not expect the students to do it. When I taught, that is what I did. It wasn’t that hard to figure out who did things.
Our school still has after school detention, but it makes it hard on the bus schedule, because they have to bus those kids home later, separately. Depending on the degree of the offense, you may also be subject to working around the school (hard labor) or loose days of school, but they don’t like to do that. Missing school is not a punishment. It’s more of a reward!
Yes, some schools in my area do after school detention and leave it up to the parents to pick the children up when it’s over. A lot of schools also have In school suspension where they go to a detention room during the school day.
howtheduck: The only difference between the old and new Jim Crow are the signs. Water fountains are still integrated – so far. Classrooms are integrated in the lower grades, but as “colored” are removed by the injustice system, it gets whiter as the grade level increases. It wasn’t until the late ‘70s that I ever visited downtown Dallas and didn’t see a policeman beating up a black – I never had occasion to go to the ghetto, so I can’t say if anything has changed there. I was in graduate school before I was ever in an integrated classroom – and that was in seminary. Don’t try to claim the problem is limited; it is as general as ever, just more on the northern enforced without signs pattern than the southern advertised version.
margueritem over 10 years ago
There always is.
IndyMan over 10 years ago
Bravo, for the teacher in showing some backbone. If no one confesses for the crime the whole class pays. If the teacher keeps it up then the other members of the class will punish the perpetrators more than the teacher could.
awdunn2484 over 10 years ago
C.L,What no one needs first thing in the morning is someone being rude and name calling nor using the Lord’s name in vane.<><me
tedunn5453 over 10 years ago
To paraphrase a former white house occupant, It depends on what your definition of “we weren’t even doing anything” is…
Dsnerker over 10 years ago
Wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning CL? Your comment is rude crude and totally unnecessary.
RI Red Hen over 10 years ago
Thanks to ALL the Veterans for our Freedom!!
summerdog86 over 10 years ago
And our jails are full of innocent people, too.
krys723 over 10 years ago
There is always another side
alondra over 10 years ago
It’s wrong to punish a whole class for the actions of a few. How many times were we ALL kept after class or ALL had to write a sentence 100 times or whatever because one or two misbehaved. Teachers should punish only the perpetrators not everyone!
kaylawil over 10 years ago
I have always hated the idea that the whole class should be punished because of the actions of one or two kids. I never saw where it worked & the guilty ones liked getting everyone in trouble. It’s up to the teacher to discipline the ones who misbehave-not expect the students to do it. When I taught, that is what I did. It wasn’t that hard to figure out who did things.
summerdog86 over 10 years ago
Our school still has after school detention, but it makes it hard on the bus schedule, because they have to bus those kids home later, separately. Depending on the degree of the offense, you may also be subject to working around the school (hard labor) or loose days of school, but they don’t like to do that. Missing school is not a punishment. It’s more of a reward!
jppjr over 10 years ago
one burp….one spitball….and a partridge in a pear tree….
QuietStorm27 over 10 years ago
Yes, some schools in my area do after school detention and leave it up to the parents to pick the children up when it’s over. A lot of schools also have In school suspension where they go to a detention room during the school day.
Hawthorne over 10 years ago
The devil is in the details … rotfl!
potrerokid over 10 years ago
whoa!!! It MUST BE Monday morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hippogriff over 10 years ago
howtheduck: Yeah, just look in the door and you could see the wonders of the New Jim Crow. Sieg heil, youall.
hippogriff over 10 years ago
howtheduck: The only difference between the old and new Jim Crow are the signs. Water fountains are still integrated – so far. Classrooms are integrated in the lower grades, but as “colored” are removed by the injustice system, it gets whiter as the grade level increases. It wasn’t until the late ‘70s that I ever visited downtown Dallas and didn’t see a policeman beating up a black – I never had occasion to go to the ghetto, so I can’t say if anything has changed there. I was in graduate school before I was ever in an integrated classroom – and that was in seminary. Don’t try to claim the problem is limited; it is as general as ever, just more on the northern enforced without signs pattern than the southern advertised version.
aerilim over 10 years ago
Is that boy going bald?