“You’re absolutely right, because we all now that when there is a PA announcement all of the kids in school immediately clam up and pay attention. “
As a former student who ignored my share of PA and “Indian Action Morning News” tv programs, your sarcastic remarks ring true.
But so what?
The kid missed an annoucement, and as a result was unprepared. Sometimes, when I’m at work, people don’t read their emails all the way through, and they end up missing pertinent info!! Then guess what? They look a little bit dumb.
School sometimes = real life.
Another important life lesson learned!
“Any school relying on PAs alone to convey that kind of information is asking for trouble.”
What kind of information? That labs would be closed after school? That’s so mundane!! This isn’t “Your teacher died this morning on the way to work”, this is.. labs are closed today after school!
Do people really need to be life coached in two different forms every step of the way??
When I was a computer science major at Texas A&M, if there was a problem with access to the computers, the profs actually helped us out, even if it meant turning in late assignments. They actually helped us problem solve.
In the real world, if the computer lab is closed for some reason and it is not communicated well to the people who rely on that lab heads are going to roll. If a lab has to be closed, it is posted in advance with flyers, posted on calendars, in company newsletters, emails, announced in staff meetings, etc. Computers not being available for work is a major thing. Just like computers used for school work is a major thing.
...and if he'd been screwing around during the announcement, it would have been his fault. What if he was trying to listen, and ten other kids in the class were making a bunch of noise? That's happened to one of my kids. He's had four surgeries to slowly correct his hearing problems. At this point, his biggest problem with hearing is not being able to distinguish one voice from several (imagine an episode of Hannity and Colmes). He missed an announcement last fall because he couldn't hear it over other kids' voices. He asked his teacher, when he had a chance, what the announcement was, and she had no idea. Turns out it was for all the kids riding his bus, to let them know that they'd be picked up in a different parking lot. He went to the usual place, waited and waited, no sign of his bus. Fortunately, his big brother noticed he wasn't on the bus and the driver went and fetched him.
That labs would be closed after school?
Doesn't that essentially mean that the kids who had been planning on using the labs would be left unsupervised for some length of time? I sure hope the janitorial staff at the school had been well screened. That's not mundane. As a parent of young boys, that is frightening.