End-of-year destructive behavior

["Madeline L. Buchanan" <mlbuchan@hiwaay.net>]

I was very concerned about the message concerning water pistols in the
library and the administration doing nothing about it.  In our system, this
would be a deliberate destruction of school property and would be dealt with
according to our code of conduct.  In another system in the Birmingham area,
graduating seniors vandalized their school because they didn't agree with
proper graduation conduct and therefore were not allowed to participate in
the graduation ceremony.

In all of the years that I have been working in education, I have been
appalled at the behavior of students who are getting ready to leave one
level to go to the next step.  In our middle school division where the
conduct grade plays a major part in determining if students would be able to
return the next school year, the eighth graders decided a month or two ago
that nothing could be done to them since they would not be back next year.
Because of their attitude (and that of their parents) they were not able to
have a banquet and dance, as all of the other eighth grade classes had up
until this year.  It seems to me that when students reach such an important
part of their lives as graduating from high school, they should be on their
best behavior rather than their worst.  When my son graduated from high
school 10 years ago, I was really embarrassed by both the behavior of the
graduating students (who were seated behind the podium and even threw beach
balls while the diplomas were given out) and their parents seated in the
stadium stands.  It seems that times have really changed since I graduated X
number of years ago.

Just my 2 cents worth.

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Madeline L. Buchanan, Library Media Specialist
W. J. Christian School, Birmingham, Alabama  35206
Phone (205) 838-7666 or 231-5277
Fax (205) 838-7673
mlbuchan@hiwaay.net
http://home.hiwaay.net/~mlbuchan/
http://home.hiwaay.net/~wjcs/

"If at first you do succeed --
Try to hide your astonishment."
--Harry F. Banks
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Madeline L. Buchanan, Library Media Specialist
W. J. Christian School, Birmingham, Alabama  35206
Phone (205) 838-7666 or 231-5277
Fax (205) 838-7673
mlbuchan@hiwaay.net
http://home.hiwaay.net/~mlbuchan/
http://home.hiwaay.net/~wjcs/

"If at first you do succeed --
Try to hide your astonishment."
--Harry F. Banks
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