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I teach high school Math – mostly Algebra I – and recently had something interesting happen. One of my students – a freshman girl – was reading a magazine in class. I told her “I need you to put the magazine away.” She then tells me, “Well, I need you to shut the hell up.” Well, I was stunned because while this girl was certainly no angel, she had never done anything even close to that serious before. Of course, I sent her out and she got a 3- day out of school suspension. Our Vice-Principal is pretty lax about a lot of stuff but he has zero tolerance for disrespect to teachers and staff.

That night, I got an irate phone call from the girl’s mother. The basic complaint was that a 3-day suspension was an unreasonably severe punishment for reading a magazine in class. Apparently, she didn’t quite tell her mom the full story. It took me a while on the phone but I was finally able to get across to mom the full story of what her daughter had actually done. Mom...See More
AM Just so you know I am a parent not a teacher. My opinion? Feel free to toss it. It served it's purpose and doesn't need to be kept as a reminder for anyone, you are both moving forward and that is the past now.

We all parent differently and while I would not use for my child that parent thought it would be effective for hers and it seems ...See More
Jan 18, 2016
Daniel On 1/18/16, AM wrote: > Just so you know I am a parent not a teacher. My opinion? Feel > free to toss it. It served it's purpose and doesn't need to be > kept as a reminder for anyone, you are both moving forward and > that is the past now. > > We all parent differently and while I would not use for my > child that parent thoug...See More
Jul 6, 2016
Daniel Writing punishment is oldfashioned but always works.

On 1/18/16, AM wrote: > Just so you know I am a parent not a teacher. My opinion? Feel > free to toss it. It served it's purpose and doesn't need to be > kept as a reminder for anyone, you are both moving forward and > that is the past now. > > We all parent differently...See More
Jul 6, 2016
Alexander On 7/06/16, Daniel wrote: > Writing punishment is oldfashioned but always works. > > On 1/18/16, AM wrote: >> Just so you know I am a parent not a teacher. My opinion? Feel >> free to toss it. It served it's purpose and doesn't need to be >> kept as a reminder for anyone, you are both moving forward and >> that is t...See More
Aug 1, 2016


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