Posted on 08/19/2016 10:08:48 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- One strict rule at a high school has gone viral and sparked debate. Catholic High School for Boys posted a sign on Facebook six days ago, and it has now been shared more than 110,000 times.
The message tells parents to turn around at the front door if they're bringing something for their sons.
"If you are dropping off your son's forgotten lunch, books, homework, equipment, etc., please turn around and exit the building. Your son will learn to problem-solve."
The school's principal Steve Straessle defended the rule.
Straessle said, "It's simply to help boys avoid the default switch of calling mom and dad when things don't go right to bail them out."
Parents sounded off on Facebook, "Give kids a break!"
While others wrote, "You learn by taking responsibility, not by escaping it."
Straessle said the whole goal is to instill responsibility.
"It makes me think for myself and not rely on other people to do things for me. And if I make a mistake, I need to learn from it and try to fix it," said [student] Wingfield.
KARK reports that the most common theme surfacing on Facebook is concern kids who forget their lunch are going to starve at school, but the principal said that won't happen. No one will starve because they know how to problem solve.
That concept is lacking in most American institutions. What we call common sense, like recognizing the difference between, "He forgot his lunch," and "His anti-seizure medication was backordered: here it is!", will get you sued for "discrimination."
Sadly,they don’t make Nuns like they used to.
Without exaggerating, I bet there are a million stories just like this. Every Catholic School had a Sister DeSalle. Mine was our sixth grade teacher, Sister Hildegarde - all 6’ of her. I swear that nuns used to take a course in knuckle whacking.
Amen.
My mom came to school ONCE, in third grade and Sister Noreen Therese told her to go home. Only other time a parent came to school was when a kid raised his hand to hit Sister Mary Robert. She slapped him, not missing a beat, lefts and rights, down the aisle, across the back, up the aisle, out the door and down three flights of stairs to the Principal’s Office.
The next day, his father brought him to school, a little ashamed and a little worse for wear. The father made him apologize to Sister Mary Robert, the class and the Principal. Then he told his son that if it ever happened again, he would kill him!
Or simply “solve problems”.
“I guess could take their cell phones away so they couldn’t call home. lol”
You haven’t been to a public school lately. It’s impossible for a parent to get in without being screened and giving a reason, and it’s harder for a kid to get out of a public school, during school hours, then it is to break out of prison. I assume this Catholic school is no different.
“Just wait until a parent is bringing medication and the child collapses. Asthma, diabetes...
Fair comment, but that’s what the school nurse is for. If the parent tries handing a cough drop to the kid these days, the kid would be looking at expulsion if he didn’t immediately down it.
A breath of fresh air....
It is ashame this rule is even needed. I can assure you that no matter what I forgot to take to school, anytime past 1st grade, my parents would never have considered bringing it to the school.
Good rule, but there should be exceptions like is the son forgets his insulin, for example
I was going to comment the same thing. All medications must go through nurses office, so if a parent brought that to the school it wouldn’t fall under this rule.
DAM you’re right!! They MUST make exceptions for some things that are needed.
So did I. And that is why I went to the institution the first time and still have a nervous tick. But I have you know that I do not torture small animals any more.
This is a Catholic school that many homeschoolers could embrace. They appear not to be raising delicate snowflakes in this school.
Yea, it’s a complacency issue. I specifically remember having Ludens in grade school, and never a problem for anyone.
Times change, but people don’t keep up and therefore send their kids to these horrific institutions that they don’t even understand (at least regarding public schools).
We had Sister Elrita; even the parents were afraid of her. But, in defense of nuns in general, for every Sister Elrita we had a dozen wonderful ones like Sister Bede and Sister Isabelle.
By high school, if I called my mother for any of these things (and by then she didn’t pay attention as to whether I had them), she would have laughed at me and hung up the phone. I had allowance and babysitting money to buy lunch if I forgot bringing food from home. My homework was my responsibility. Not done and not turned in on time meant not going to college. Same for books and equipment.
And good friends always have each others backs. I still have my high school calculator that has a smiley sticker a friend put on it after I loaned it to her because she forgot hers. We were so bad about swapping to survive at my school, a teacher did a surprise book check one day and you got an extra point if your name was the one in it.
Bkmrk
"(Ahem..)These are medically necessary meds."
Problem solved.
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