Watcha Gonna Do ?
SCENE 1: a middle school classroom
Teacher asks a student a question, such as "do you have your assignment?" Student response is: a) the blank look b) a silent shrug of the shoulders c) a verbal "I don't know" or d) a disinterested roll of the eyes along with silence or an utterance of annoyance. Teacher tells student that they can turn in the assignment the next day and if they need help or have any questions about it, please come in for a minute after school. Teacher adds, that most of the time, students with a question who come in after school to ask their question or get help are there for mere minutes.
SCENE 2: Same classroom, the following day, the same class period.
Teacher asks student for missing assignment. Student response is: a) the blank look b) a silent shrug of the shoulders c) a verbal "I don't know" or d) a disinterested roll of the eyes along with silence or an utterance of annoyance.
Whatcha Gonna Do ?
SCENE: Classroom, teacher dialing phone numbers in fruitless effort to contact a parent of student in class who is having a) academic issues, b) discipline issues or c) both academic and discipline issues. The phone number is either a) no longer in service b) not available at this time c) just ringing and ringing and ringing, d) "the person you are trying to call no longer is employed here" or e) there is no one here by that name.
When the office staff is queried about the lack of successful phone contact numbers, they usually say a) ok, b) Yeah, we can't get in contact with that parent either, or c) "Well THOSE are the numbers the parent gave us on the emergency contact card !"
Whatcha Gonna Do ?
My son received a nice Dickies brand jacket for Christmas. It is a flannel cloth plaid with a hood. He wore it to school for the first time last week. When he came home, he let us know that he couldn't wear that jacket anymore. Several people at his school asked him, apparently in shock and surprise, if he was in "X-Y-Z" local gang ! My son was wearing gang colors to school ! Maybe we can return the jacket. And get him another one that apparently isn't being used as a gang identifier. Such a society we live in.....acck!
Thanks for reading my blog! Comments are hoped for and welcome.
Teacher asks a student a question, such as "do you have your assignment?" Student response is: a) the blank look b) a silent shrug of the shoulders c) a verbal "I don't know" or d) a disinterested roll of the eyes along with silence or an utterance of annoyance. Teacher tells student that they can turn in the assignment the next day and if they need help or have any questions about it, please come in for a minute after school. Teacher adds, that most of the time, students with a question who come in after school to ask their question or get help are there for mere minutes.
SCENE 2: Same classroom, the following day, the same class period.
Teacher asks student for missing assignment. Student response is: a) the blank look b) a silent shrug of the shoulders c) a verbal "I don't know" or d) a disinterested roll of the eyes along with silence or an utterance of annoyance.
Whatcha Gonna Do ?
SCENE: Classroom, teacher dialing phone numbers in fruitless effort to contact a parent of student in class who is having a) academic issues, b) discipline issues or c) both academic and discipline issues. The phone number is either a) no longer in service b) not available at this time c) just ringing and ringing and ringing, d) "the person you are trying to call no longer is employed here" or e) there is no one here by that name.
When the office staff is queried about the lack of successful phone contact numbers, they usually say a) ok, b) Yeah, we can't get in contact with that parent either, or c) "Well THOSE are the numbers the parent gave us on the emergency contact card !"
Whatcha Gonna Do ?
My son received a nice Dickies brand jacket for Christmas. It is a flannel cloth plaid with a hood. He wore it to school for the first time last week. When he came home, he let us know that he couldn't wear that jacket anymore. Several people at his school asked him, apparently in shock and surprise, if he was in "X-Y-Z" local gang ! My son was wearing gang colors to school ! Maybe we can return the jacket. And get him another one that apparently isn't being used as a gang identifier. Such a society we live in.....acck!
Thanks for reading my blog! Comments are hoped for and welcome.
posted by Dan Edwards | 7:04 PM
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