Ping!
What about folks like me, who had absolutely NO interest in associating with the majority of my classmates? The few I did associate with back then, I still have contact with. The rest of them, I could NOT care less about.
Save your social engineering for yourself, leave the kids alone!
This could help in identifying problem children but other security measures are necessary on the part of school administrators to keep kids safe.
This is absolutely brilliant. Sadly, I’m not sure enough teachers care, think they have the time or are bright enough to figure it out. But I do think every one should read this. It is brilliant and maybe one will know how to “do it”.
This is very good. It deserves a wide readership.
One elementary I attended in the mid-1950s used bribery with candy to maintain discipline.
Students who got few ‘demerits’ could eat candy/chew gum on Friday afternoon. Those who got too many ‘demerits’ could only sit and watch.
Every teacher would do well to do something like that. Under orders, if nothing else.
Brene Brown is the best Qx knows about CONNECTION
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=BRENE+BROWN
Most of her stuff is extremely well worth watching--and applying.
Teacher of the Millenium.
This is a must read. Absolute genius. Simple. Fast. And probably saving lives. What if every teacher had their own way of doing this? So the kids don’t catch on.
Excellent on so many levels. The teacher who developed this system is a gem and should teach this to others.
looking out for the lonely students, what a concept...
my dtr with aspergers was lonely..had no friends...I appreciated anyone who said a few words to her even to this day....
just because people have aspergers or autism doesn't mean they don't have feelings...
Exceptional read!!!
Good teacher ping.
Good teacher ping.
This deranged f-up Cruz wouldn’t have been remotely affected by this method.
In fact virtually everyone in and around the school (including the cops) knew he was deranged, and knew of his threats to kill.
Who was going to be his “exceptional citizen” friend?
Social engineering never works. It’s for the retarded that think it does.
I’m all for looking out for sad, lonely children but we need to be careful here as to how we deal with it. Some of our most brilliant innovations have come from “lonely” kids, i.e. kids who didn’t fit into the school template. Highly intelligent kids tend to be loners and often socially awkward, which is why they can think outside the box. And we should not stigmatize introverts. These educators who have thought to ban “best friends” or preference to work alone are perhaps doing more harm than good.
Good idea but liberals will turn the schools into an East Berlin, East Germany scenario where credits and promotion will come to informant’s.
And anyone suspected will get “reeducated”, or doped up.
I knew a guy who was like that. I went to his house every week. He didn`t associate much with other students. He had one close friend in school, no girlfriends. His family said, “Oh he`s always quiet and shy.” He had perfect grades in school. He was always studying hard. When he went to college he found a girlfriend whom he married after graduation. They have 3 kids. He had perfect grades in college. Couple years later he was one of the founders of Nvidia. He`s a billionaire today and is still quiet and doesn`t associate much. BUT WHO CARES???? All he ever wanted to do to school was to study hard and do his very best. What is the IQ of the average teacher? It must be the same as that of FBI agents to think that they can force children into a mold they think is socially correct.
This certainly makes me uncomfortable. It falls in the area of “What could go wrong”?
It casts the teacher as social engineer. I am all for a teacher noticing and extending themselves to a child who is socially awkward or withdrawn and even facilitating pairing during group assignments. But they shouldn’t need to be this intrusive to do so.
Schools are for learning about reading writing, arithmetic, history, science, civics. They are failing at that because of the incorporation of social justice and other clap trap, not to mention quotas instead of discipline.
In the younger grades there is time spent on civilization ie sharing, considering other’s feelings, working as a team and so on. In those years teachers should be making an effort to identify children who need some help navigating the group and making friends. A good teacher doesn’t need a weekly questionnaire to do so. The method suggested may work for a particular teacher but as a general rule seems more like a recipe for meddling than beneficial.
G-R-E-A-T.
Schools churn out uneducated, illiterate indoctrinated idiots already. Let’s throw something else into the mix.
- Terminate the teacher’s unions, the DoEd and property taxes
- Parent(s)\Guardian(s) can write the check(s) for the education of their brood
- Vocational/arts...magnet schools a-plenty as KIDS will determine their life choices beyond the 8yr ‘baseline’.
Cuz’ if anyone thinks private biz is NOT going to have to show results/audit, handle the trouble-makers (likely expelled w/o refund) and hire the best they can find, to pull in said $$$, is daft.