School discipline
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:21 am
My friend the teacher who is now teaching 7 year olds has a majority of boys in her clas. The class is 24 and she has 16 boys, as everyone knows boys are crap at this age at sitting still for more than 0.00001 seconds.
She decided to rearrange the classroom into individual desks set in rows, just like you all remember, my maths teacher could hit you with the blackboard rubber (eraser) from 30ft. She had to get the school caretaker to get enough small tables and it took her almost a night to do it.
The result is that gone were the communal tables of 6 and every child had it's own desk with about 3 ft betewen them, guess what no troble keeping the little tykes quiet now because she can easily identify the troublesome ones as they have to lean across to intefere with their classmates.
On friday the headmistress pokes her head in the classroom and just about has a heart attack, my friend is informed that it's against government education policy blah blah blah, so regardless of the fcat that this sysytem worked for 200 years she has to go back to communal tables, and has a disciplinary hearing next week
She decided to rearrange the classroom into individual desks set in rows, just like you all remember, my maths teacher could hit you with the blackboard rubber (eraser) from 30ft. She had to get the school caretaker to get enough small tables and it took her almost a night to do it.
The result is that gone were the communal tables of 6 and every child had it's own desk with about 3 ft betewen them, guess what no troble keeping the little tykes quiet now because she can easily identify the troublesome ones as they have to lean across to intefere with their classmates.
On friday the headmistress pokes her head in the classroom and just about has a heart attack, my friend is informed that it's against government education policy blah blah blah, so regardless of the fcat that this sysytem worked for 200 years she has to go back to communal tables, and has a disciplinary hearing next week