German schools ‘make hyper kids wear 13lb sand vests to keep them in their seats’

Metro. UK ^ | 20 Jan 2018 | Tanveer Mann

[EEGator]

I can’t sit at my desk for five hours...not even close.

[Daffynition]

Thunder vests for canines.

[EEGator]

That’s always a good idea.

[Poison Pill]

Maybe children shouldn’t be sitting in school for 8 hours...

....ding, ding, ding, ding, ding

[BobL]

True...but they’re not chained to their desks for 5 hours straight. More like a couple of hours at a time.

Still tough for kids, but it’s difficult to see how letting them run wild all day will help with their education either.

[Tailback]

Here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBkSIFMTMoE

[stanne]

In the home school community we were associated with, no kid sat for five hours.

[BobL]

My kids did (on Saturdays)...they didn’t like it much, but a few swats when needed got them many years ahead in math.

[T-Bird45]

“Thunder vests for canines.”

Had one for my last dog - highly recommend. She was a 60# Australian Cattle Dog & entirely too much to be in my lap during an OK thunderstorm.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Harrison Bergeron" -- BINGO!

[WayneS]

I’d wear one. It is filled with sand so it might help protect me from shrapnel wounds in the event of a terrorist bombing.

[bboop]

Did the jumper-upper have to jump rope in the corner? Or she tied them into the chairs? I often thought, when I taught in the classroom, that bubble wrap and duct tape were highly underrated.

[Nifster]

Stupid solution. Send to kid outdoors to run and get some energy out

[ProtectOurFreedom]

In fourth grade, Mr. Razzman beaned you with a fast-ball piece of chalk smack on the side of the head — thrown from his desk at the front of the room. You got your head screwed on right pretty quickly in Mr. Razzman’s room.

[bboop]

Yup, no. We homeschooled too - my wiggly son lay on the rug in his pajamas to read. No desks, not a lot of sitting.

[bgill]

The nuns used rulers.

[ebshumidors]

Easier for the moslems to beat them.

[Poison Pill]

The feminizing of boys continues apace.

[piasa]

It works with dogs and in a different manner based on the same idea, in wild horses too.

Give a working dog a backback and he’ll often change his attitude and focus.

With wild horses they can be led into a stall box and sand poured in ... the even, soft pressure over the whole body at once feels good to them and enables the trainer to accustom the animal to human sights and smells without the animal kicking and nipping.

[JoeProBono]