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Re: How strict are you about students
Posted by If principals and teachers are--- on 8/23/08
---in the hallways, student will get to class. We have a new high
school principal and he told us yesterday, I do not principal from
the office. My assistants and I will be in the hallways during
passing periods."
On 8/20/08, OP wrote:
> Do you not find that students fool around/get into trouble in
> the hallways when given more time than necessary? At my school
> the kids just hang out in the hallways, get into fights, buy
> and sell drugs, etc., and even when given extra time, which I
> did last year, still come late to class.
>
> On 8/20/08, Sara wrote:
>> On 8/20/08, arriving to class on time? wrote:
>>> How strict are you about students arriving to class on
>>> time?
>>> My school leaves too little time for passing classes- the
>> halls are packed with kids, we've outgrown our school, and
>> they have so many books, notebooks that they have to stop at
>> their lockers often if they're going to be prepared for each
>> class.
>>
>> I don't start class until 3-5 minutes after the start of
>> class. I don't want kids to spend the day worried - we all
>> spend too much time rushing around in our lives, it's
>> downright stressful. I want kids to be comfortable in my
>> class. I think that's what serves learning - not the frazzled
>> state we have them in here rushing around all the time.
>>
>> And we don't have bells - we have clocks. When they come in
>> the room, I do want them in their seats. They sometimes are
>> up sharpening pencils but I do want them sitting down. The
>> aisles get too cluttered with kids when they're not sitting
> down.
>>
>> And because I give extra time, no one's late. They all get
>> make it to class on time I find if they're only given a
>> reasonable amount of time in which to stop at their locker and
>> walk to class. I think we don't examine our practices in
>> school often enough to see if some of the problem is caused by
>> our practice. 3 minutes is not enough to pass classes.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What consequences do you have for students who arrive
>>> tardy?
>>
>> No one is ever late. IF a kid would come walking in 10
>> minutes after the class starts, I'd ask where they'd been.
>> They produce a note from the nurse or from the teacher who
>> made them late. What consequences would I have if anyone ever
>> came in late and didn't have a note? I'd be more interested in
>> knowing what wrong that made them late than in thinking up a
>> consequence.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by arriving to class on time?.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by Teri.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by Susan/TX.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by Rebecca.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by zodea.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by better not be.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by zodea.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by OP.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by Teri.
- Re: How strict are you about students /rewards, 8/20/08, by Teri.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by Joe/HS/CT.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by citygirl.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by Sara.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by OP.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/20/08, by better not be.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/21/08, by OP to better not be.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/21/08, by Bulldog.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/21/08, by Pecos.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/23/08, by Texas High School Teacher.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/23/08, by If principals and teachers are---.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/23/08, by Rebecca.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/23/08, by Teri.
- Re: How strict are you about students , 8/27/08, by Kookoo.
- Re: How strict are you about students - I make them SING!, 8/27/08, by ash.
- Re: How strict are you about students - I make them SING!, 8/28/08, by Cristy.
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