Posted on 12/01/2019 5:16:34 AM PST by karpov
Last month, NBC Nightly News aired a segment on the latest classroom-management technique to sweep America’s schools: “room clears”: When a child throws a tantrum that could physically endanger his peers, teachers evacuate all of the other students from the classroom until the troublemaker has vented his rage upon empty desks, tables and chairs. The technique was virtually unheard of five years ago. But 56 percent of surveyed teachers and parents in Oregon now report having experienced a room clear in their or their child’s classroom over the last year.
Surrendering the classroom to a single student: The average reader might well ask why anyone thinks this would be a good idea. Yet the policies that make this approach inevitable have been applauded by a wide range of authorities, from the Southern Poverty Law Center to the Trump-administration’s Department of Education.
The emergence of room clears is a product of several fashionable education-policy trends designed to protect the rights of troubled students, often with little regard for the rights of their classmates. These include the provisions contained in the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which mandates that special-education students be subject to the “least restrictive environment” possible. When it comes to students who are hard of hearing, dyslexic or developmentally delayed, this policy likely has done a great deal of good. But many schools also label disruptive or violent students as having an “Emotional and Behavioral Disability” (EBD). Rather than provide these students specialized attention in separate settings, schools often funnel them into traditional classrooms.
In a national poll, two thirds of surveyed teachers at high-poverty schools reported that there is a student in their classroom who they believed shouldn’t be there;
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When I was in high school in New Zealand in 1984, the technical drawing teacher (along with other teachers there) just simply laid down the law with the cane. That might have been that bit cruel, but it kept many of us honest.
They need to bring back Sister James Miriam and Sister Mary Joseph along with a few medal rulers to straighten them out when young.
Wish this policy could apply to the House Intelligence committee.
I spent the first 10 years of my education in Catholic parochial schools.
Grade 1-8. The nuns beat those troublemakers with pointers or yard sticks.
Grade 9 and 10 the Marist Brothers would expel you for just a hint of being out of control. I moved to the burbs and attended public school for grades 11-12. This was the 50s and 60s.
See #5
Sounds about right. My older sisters both teachers said they weed out the problems early.
When I was a sub, we were told to clear the room if a student was violent. We were told to never touch a student. The consequence for hugging a child or holding a child’s hand or helping a five year old button his/her pants is firing.
My grandson had a violent child in his class. The child threw his desk, broke the teacher’s desk, and continued throwing things. Two administrators intervened. That child was moved to a lower grade. That’s it. The room was not cleared.
We were paddled in my school. At first it was a sign of how tough you were if you could take it. But one teacher used a thin paddle with holes drilled in it. After that I realized it wasn’t cool anymore. I think we’re way beyond that now. Some of the teachers nowadays probably have PARENTS that didn’t live in the era of corporal punishment.
When I was in school, the “bad kids” had their own classrooms and teachers. We non-ferals were free to learn stuff in a civilized atmosphere.
Actually there are grandparents now to that point.
When I was in the 1st grade I had mouth taped shut and had to stand in the corner for talking too much. It never happened again.
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I’ve heard through the grapevine that this happens on occasion in our little school. Not all teachers do it but some of the younger ones do.
All started with the big lie of inclusion. You can’t magically make the ignorant smarter, the feral tamer, the undisciplined disciplined, etc. just by putting them in the same room. The opposite inevitably occurs.
Swatting was prevalent in my jr high and high school.
More insanity from the government school system.
Years from now, this era will he remembered as the time when human evolution began to run in reverse. It’s only a matter of time before baboons start bringing their children to the zoo to see humans in cages.
You know in our day that whatever punishment we might have gotten in school was going to be much worse when we got home.......
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