Re : Water guns and other end of school issues

[Joanne Proctor <jmproctor@CJNETWORKS.COM>]

Hi,
  I'm going to sound like an old fuddy-duddy here but my question after
reading the posts on this topic is WHEN DID ALL THIS STUFF START?  Someone
in a posting made the comment that the end of the school year was supposed
to be "fun."  SINCE WHEN???? After school hours, maybe, but not during the
school day.  It's a school, not an amusement park.  It's not just the water
guns either, it's the attire and shenanigans at graduations which USED to
be solemn occasions, and what I call the lack of creativity (or just plain
laziness) of teachers at the end of the year.  The teachers I had (back in
the Cretaceous period I think that was) didn't have videos to show all day
the last week of school (they don't care when I tell them they may be in
violation of copyright/fair use) and they managed to keep us "working"
right up to the end with "threats" that "I can still change your grade."
The same was true when I started teaching (the Middle Ages).  I was "out of
education" during the '70s and early '80s. Is that when we "lost control?"
Or had it taken from us?

Forgive me for "venting."


Joanne Proctor
"Librarians - The Ones Who Know"
Most Pure Heart of Mary School
Topeka, KS
jmproctorcjnetworks.com

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