Re: Re : Water guns and other end of school issues

[Mark Williams <mark_williams@EEE.ORG>]

Joanne, you are speaking for many of us.  The inmates are running the
asylum in far too many places.  Oddly, I have graduates come back and
comment on how unruly their younger brother's and sister's graduations
were/are, and I smile, thinking of how unruly *they* were a few years ago.
So maybe it IS an age thing, but really, you are right.  We were expected
to perform up until the end, and we were NOT allowed to behave badly or
there were consequences.  I remember a student in my graduating class (yes,
the had dinos then too!) who failed Senior Government and therefore did not
graduate.  The principal just said 'no' to the parent and the parent
accepted it, realizing that their son had not passed a required class.  No
threats to sue, no ranting, no guns, no wails that it wasn't fair or that
they had not been been informed 50 times prior to this.  And the school
board didn't cave in and make an exception and instruct the school to
inform everyone 51 times in the future, either.

At 02:57 AM 5/30/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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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