"Tolerate, Not Condone"
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Well, this is a model for us here in America. This is the way to deal with those delinquent types...
This is not, by the way, a joke.
[[ A secondary school is to allow pupils to swear at teachers - as long as they don't do so more than five times in a lesson. A running tally of how many times the f-word has been used will be kept on the board. If a class goes over the limit, they will be 'spoken' to at the end of the lesson.
"Within each lesson the teacher will initially tolerate (although not condone) the use of the f-word (or derivatives) five times and these will be tallied on the board so all students can see the running score," he wrote in the letter
"Over this number the class will be spoken to by the teacher at the end of the lesson." ]]
Lest you think that this is the only innovative idea at this school:
[[ The 1,130-pupil school, which was criticised as 'not effective' by Ofsted inspectors last November, also plans to send 'praise postcards' to the parents of children who do not swear and who turn up on time for lessons. ]]
(LINK to story)
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posted by kmg at 11:15
5 Comments:
Would they "tolerate, not condone" a teacher who smacks the student in the mouth for disrespecting him or her?
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
They most certainly would not! That is a very "American cowboy" response!
Remember, this is the country who is outlawing the word "failure" in favor of "deferred success"....
When I was in grade school back in the day, teachers could still use corporal punishment. My 3rd grade teacher, Mr. Z, had a long wooden paddle in his classroom (with holes drilled in it for added effect, no less) and used it on various occasions.
That is, until near the end of the year he used it on the backside of the heaviest kid in 3rd grade; it broke on his backside. True story! Of course, this student had to live with the seemingly inexhaustable humor about his place of honor for many years thereafter...
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
This sort of thing is just so... alien to most of us. Wow.
But it is real... and it will come for us if we let it.
It's already coming, kmg. As a teacher, I have seen the rise of a trend to allow students more "autonomy" and "self-determination" in the classroom. It's really insidious stuff, believe me.
If you go to the ACLU main website, you can view and download a pamphlet they hand out to students informing them of their rights in re school authorities. Never mind that the Supreme Court has ruled that school Admins have an "in loco parentis" standing in terms of legality.
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
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