Posted on 04/14/2005 5:58:52 AM PDT by Sam's Army
Public School Is Too Strict; Socialization Muted
My home-schooled granddaughter and I went to have lunch with my public schooled granddaughter at her school recently. She wanted us to come have lunch with her. It cost $2.50 for me and $1.50 for granddaughter.
It sure wasn't like when we went to school. None of the kids were allowed to talk at all to each other during their lunch hour.
After they finished eating, they had to read a book that they brought with them.
There were monitors with eyes roving to and fro. If they order milk, they are forced to drink it all. It seemed to me more like I was in a prison cafeteria.
They had to get in no-talking lines to arrive and to leave, all in the same uniforms, and no talking of course, even in the rest rooms.
If they talk in lines, they have to go to the principal's office.
I sure didn't see much socialization going on there.
My home-schooled granddaughter and I were glad to get out of there, and step back into freedom.
FRAN GRINER
Lakeland
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That was supposedly in a public school? Why do I doubt it.
Hmm, no talking, uniforms, strict discipline - sounds like a 19th Century British boarding school. Maybe kids will learn something now.
Hmm, no talking, uniforms, strict discipline - sounds like a 19th Century British boarding school. Maybe kids will learn something now.
Uniforms are standard for that county up to high school.
Really? What will they learn at lunchtime by not talking? Does your company not allow you talk at lunch with colleagues?
You mean a "PUBLIC" School....
Ms Fran, does your grandchild attend Hong Kong Sze Yap Commercial and Industrial Association Chan Nam Chong Memorial College? Schools in Hong Kong are very much like that but even they allow chatterings during lunchtime.
Schools in New Zealand still wear uniforms. And it is even more so in Hong Kong, where discipline in schools is famously strict.
When will the kids find the time to tease and bully the other children?... or catch up on the latest gossip?...or talk about the "popular" kids or Brittney? Poor little things.
I agree, but it is supposedly a grandmother writing it, so I cut her some slack.
I can assure you that up here in WV in public schools, the same no-talking rule held for lunch hour in elementary schools as well. They also had a strict no-talking rule in classroom except when the teacher gave the OK, and I was there on one occasion when the kids were deprived of their 15 minute recess period because several kids had talked.
The teachers are of course doing this for the greater good.
If you think lunchtime's bad, you should be there when they study butterfly ballots...
Sounds like a school with a clue of how to keep order and have an environment where learning can take place.
It would have been nice if the author could have stayed a full day and commented on what went on the rest of the day.
Did you manage to talk in school and not bully anyone at the same time?
This does not pass the smell test. No names, no specifics, impossible to enforce rules (no talking in rest rooms)
If the writer has a complaint, take it to the School Board.
Did you?
I know, I used to attend Puketapu primary school in New Plymouth, in my younger days.
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