School Policy...*(&^&%!!!!!

[redhen]

The children should only get strikes for THEIR behavior. Why make a kid responsible for their parents actions? Thats unfair and unjust..
Kids need to learn PERSONAL responsibilty..NOT take on the parents role for responsibility! I'd be at that school in a heart beat,and my child would NOT get strikes because I forgot to sign a paper! I would fight that to the top..
But by ALL means, if my child dosent follow your class rules..talking in the halls..etc.. THEN you have my blessings to give the child the strikes.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

When I was a child we went inside when the bell rang to start the school day, and found our way to our classroom. For about the first week we went in lines from class to class, but after that we went on our own. Talking in the hall was fine, but not yelling or running. You worked until the bell rang at the end of the dy, then put your things away and walked to your car/carpool, home or the bus pickup.

With my kids, they went everywhere in lines, talking in line was forbidden, they had to line up to go into class and line up to leave, oh, and they were outside waiting for parents when the dismissal bell rang. To my thinking, the time spent cleaning up and putting things away before the bell, not to mention the time WAITING silently in line are minutes stolen from my kids' education.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

DS's school gave out a Rule Book the first day, only they called it something like Orientation Guidebook. You had three days to sign it, acknowledging you would do everything they outlined in there, or your kid was no longer enrolled. If you had a beef about anything throughout the year, "It's in the handbook. You signed it."

If you didn't sell a ticket for the ball at the golf club, you had to buy it yourself ($125) or they would tack it onto your tuition cost. They also change to automatic payments through a third-party company over the internet, so that company withdrew money from your bank account as per instructions from the school. So you couldn't say "Well, I won't pay them for that ticket!" It was like Nazi Germany.

 

[hippiechicks]

I feel the schools are putting our kids down when we should all be bring them up I see children everyday who look like the life has been taken out of them they have just given up .I feel it is a gross wrong doing to punish children because we some time forget or our running late .I see alot of teachers who often forget things or are late to class what kind of punishment are they given. dont get me wrong teachers are wonderful people for the job they do it is a thankless job not all that good of pay because it is one of the most inportant jobs. They hold the future in their hands .We just need a little more love and understanding every child has a role in this world we just need to help them find it.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

The best system I have ever seen for reinforcing good behavior was in my older son's 2nd grade class. Mind you this was a small, private school, and the classroom was mixed grades: 2nd through 6th.

At the end of every day the teacher had a given number of tickets to give out. A child's name was written on the ticket and put into a big jar. At the end of the month, she would draw out 4 or 5 names and they would have a special unch in the classroom. She would bring some homemade treat to share. The more tickets with your name on them, the better your chances of being selected.

Here is the really good part. The teacher did not select who received tickets. The kids suggested their classmantes whom they had noticed doing something nice for another student. Mary loaned Ben a pencil when his broke, Andy helped Sally find the book she lost, Shelly gave Alice a hug when she was upset. John helped Mark practice his math facts. Etc.

When you went into that classroom, it was never silent, but it was also never noisy--there was always a steady hum of activity. She was strict, but she was fair.

 

[Camelot Farms]

Nicely said HippieChicks!

edited for spelling

 

[redhen]

Something else about this bothers me also... IF a parent is not signing these sheets all the time..if its become a pattern, then that tells me that something may be wrong in the household. Why should the child have to come to school everday and get in trouble because their parents have issues or are neglectful? Dont you think the children have enough on their minds and souls at that young age, then to be punished because of their parents neglect...
Heres a novel idea.. Why not be more supportive to these kids? That so obviously need it! (DUH)
Why not request parental meetings to resolve it....between ADULTS?
What the hell have we come to? To blame children for neglectful parents....what next? What a shame..i'm telling you i'd make a BIG fuss over this..

 

[EweSheep]

When I was attending to all of DD;s PreK special events, I saw lack of parents attendances in these fun events. Many of them were from the projects and could not afford to pay for a cab to come to their children's events. I will not condemn those parents for working and can not take time to come or parents that can not afford cab fares. What I dont like are the parents that dont come when they whine and complain about everything that the children were forced to do and whatever idiot teacher that told them that they need to assist their children more when they are struggling in class.

As for fund raiser projects, I abhore those but support the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts even they had parents to help them but they are not metering out the awards and isolating anyone, the whole group contributes no matter how small or large, everyone gets to go to special events.

 

[ILOVEFRIZZLES]

my daughter got told the next time she would loose 5 min of play time because I did not send a later saying why she was out of school. She is also in 3rd grade. What they think that a 8 year old would skip school. So next I am going to send a not say Allie was absent. I do not think it is any of the busy why.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

NCLB has taken a lot of the joy and creativity out of teaching. That's why you guys are seeing so much homework in kindergarten and things like that. There is so much pressure to teach to the test and make sure kids pass it. In another few years, every school in the country will be a "failing school" according to the government because they expect all kids to get high scores on the tests (and they don't make a separate test for kids who are immigrants or special ed kids or have other special learning needs or limitations or disabilities).

The stuff I was taught about teaching in college only four years ago is simply not true anymore. We have no freedom, and everything we do is carefully prepared so that the government doesn't take over our schools and fire us, and so that the parents don't sue us. That's the simple truth. The schools of your childhoods simply do not exist anymore.