middleagedgamer
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Aw!I taught in public schools for 11 years and every year I saw administrators and teachers "suggest" that the "dumb" kids be sick on standardized test day, so that they would not drag the schools score down.
In that, case, easy fix: Those who are absent from the standardized tests, and don't make them up promptly, get automatic zeros.
Problem solved.
Suspension is supposed to warrant automatic zeros, without the possibility of making them up.I have seen the trouble makers "suspended" for three days immediately before testing days.
If it is found that they only do so to artificially enhace test scores, they should be sanctioned.I have seen numerous methods used to artificially enhance a schools score on the standardized tests
That's why sanctions need to be increased.Can you imagine how much greater the temptation would be to cheat the system if the schools funding was tied to the test scores?
Easy. The schools will. If they loose the case, they will have to reimburse the state their expenses... and expert witnesses (including investigators) are included.and who is going to pay for all the extra investigators needed to enforce this?
How is it ass backwards? You give less results, you should get less money. It's that simple.What would be served if those schools with the poorest test results got the least money? Seems back-asswards.
So, should we reserve education for those who can afford it?Let private enterprise take over schools.
I don't see how letting them simply drop out early is going to "fix" that problem. School is not just academic education. It also teaches discipline. Forcing kids to go somewhere they don't want to be, but have to be (like a job) is a key part of the whole "discipline" thing.problem students who are taking up space in the classroom,
Punish them more severely.bullying the students who actually want to learn,
A suspension is just a vacation to those kids. Give them punishments that you normally see in boot camp.
No, how about this, instead:and agree to let schools stop being babysitters.
Don't want to learn? No problem. Get out.
Don't want to learn? Tough. Learn anyway, or you'll be scrubbing the entire cafeteria with your toothbrush.
I have personal, first hand experience with earning the respect of otherwise rebellious kids by taking respect from them. If they won't give it to me, voluntarily, I will pry it from their cold, dead fingers.
I substitute taught, before. I still do, on occasion, though I do so part time. So, let me give you some examples of how I forced them to respect me.
If some rebellious teen is texting in class, I won't just tell her to put the phone away. I will snatch it from her hand, smash it on the ground into a dozen pieces (all two hundred dollars worth of it), and get within an inch of her face, like a boot camp drill sergeant, and say "Text your friends, now! TEXT YOUR FRIENDS, NOW!"
If I see two people passing notes in class, I will snatch the note from them, without any prior warning, and read it aloud to the class, expecting everyone to laugh at them, kind of like Snape did in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (although I forget the exact chapter).
Two people are getting in a fight, I will forcefully break them up, and follow them to the office, with my body arching over their heads, and yell at them "Suspended? SUSPENDED?! You'll be lucky if you don't got to JAIL, you little brat!"
I soon became the substitute that students feared, and the substitute that teachers asked for (because I actually take charge).
More examples are available upon request.
THAT is how you teach kids respect.
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