Teachers "Immitating"

[McConnaughay]

For school today we had an assembly, for all of high school, and it started when there was six chairs in the middle of the gymnasium aligned next to one another as we gazed from the bleachers, the principal sat numerous of the teachers down and began to speak. As a way of imitating the students they decided to do kiddie things such as talking on their phone, blowing bubbles, pulling chairs and scooting around making noise. It came across as senseless, insulting, and immature, the reason is because not all of the kids in the school are like that and there is only a selective few that are. It's the equivalent of someone saying that all Muslims are terrorists, because it's just not the case and you are looking at those that make themselves obvious and not the individual. They evened dropped the line that ALL of the students need to learn how to behave as opposed to stating that this is entirely for those that act out. Has a school you went to ever done anything like this? What is your take?

 

[Evil Eye]

Slap some sense into them!



No, I don't think that's ever happened to me... never do those things either. Can't manage bubbles

 

[Jazzy]

I have never heard of anything so asinine in my life as to what they did. I can only hope a student caught that on video. If they did, I would hope they show it to the higher ups in your school district. Let's see how kiddie they can really act when caught degrading all the students.

 

[McConnaughay]

In the grand scheme of things, you could take it as them venting their frustrations regarding some of the students but I feel there was a better way of doing such that didn't slam the students that actually do nothing wrong. I hardly ever talk to my friends during school unless there is a permitted opportunity such as lunch which is why it got to me.

 

[Jazzy]

I agree with you, Orion, that there was a better way to handle this whole issue. I would assume that they cannot just pick the handful or so trouble makers and just speak with them. That would probably be against some stupid rule. They should not, however, have acted in such an immature manner to get their point across. Hasn't school just started there?

 

[McConnaughay]

I agree with you, Orion, that there was a better way to handle this whole issue. I would assume that they cannot just pick the handful or so trouble makers and just speak with them. That would probably be against some stupid rule. They should not, however, have acted in such an immature manner to get their point across. Hasn't school just started there?

It was the second day of school, and it was the opening assembly for today, afterward we spent the entire day going place to place to see how to act, how to behave at the water fountain, which they also did idiotic imitations of us to get their point across, how to go up the stairs, honestly, their main point to get across seemed to be that we should always walk on the right side of the rooms we are in, and that if you have a cellphone or electronic being utilized within one-thousand feet of the school than they have permission to confiscate it, however, they make exception to if your house is near the school. That seems ridiculously outrageous to me and the entire issue that provoked this was students text'ing in class, I understand them having you put the cellphone in your locker during class to not tempt the student because admittedly that might be getting out of hand and it's best to cut that fad out of the equation before it really gets started but that's the end of it, afterward in my opinion there should be no rules regarding phones except perhaps using them while in the halls. I'm not sure if they actually will enforce the one-thousand feet ruling because I don't feel like they actually can confiscate something just because it's within one-thousand feet from where the school is felt like a hyperbole except they were serious. They have also included a new class within the curriculum entitled RTI which is basically where students are sent to whichever class they are doing most lousy with to assist with their problems in said class. This would actually be a good idea if they didn't have to slightly cut time in some periods to fit it in and what did they take time from? Our lunch period of course, which means if you have to walk to your house to eat because your parents are at work and you don't want to eat at the school like myself, you have to basically head back to class immediately after you get home. My other problem with RTI is as opposed to being a study-hall like period at which there is the teacher of whatever class you're having problems with circling the room and assisting you with whatever problem that you have with his or her respective lesson or worksheet to thus tutor you, instead it's basically a class as which assigns homework and worksheets to teach you things. Last year in RTI, I had a class for math and as opposed to going over potentially what I could have been having problems with they decided to leap a year or so ahead and review things that we hadn't ever been taught and essentially as opposed to assisting us they truly just jumbled and cluttered our minds by trying to teach us things that we really had no business learning yet and subtracted our focus toward our actual class we're trying to do better in.



If that doesn't successfully win the post of the year here on Off Topix than I'll be disappointed and feel somewhat screwed over.

 

[Cranos]

Well... if that had happened in my high school, it'd be on youtube and facebook already... Sadly, it never happened. Would've loved seeing the teachers make an ass of themselves.



I understand where you're coming from though, it's not nice to see your good behaviour goes completely unnoticed and that they can only focus on the negative students. And as far as that RTI class goes... I know your pain. They introduced a similar class in the last 2 years at my school, but instead of taking away lunch break time they just added it in the afternoon, so we had to stay an hour longer. The class was completely useless and eventually everyone basically just started doing their homework instead of listening or doing the tasks we were supposed to do.



What I'm also wondering is why they treat you like children by giving you ridiculous, over-the-top examples and then expect you to act mature... That doesn't make any sense.

 

[Flurry]

It was the second day of school, and it was the opening assembly for today, afterward we spent the entire day going place to place to see how to act, how to behave at the water fountain, which they also did idiotic imitations of us to get their point across, how to go up the stairs, honestly, their main point to get across seemed to be that we should always walk on the right side of the rooms we are in, and that if you have a cellphone or electronic being utilized within one-thousand feet of the school than they have permission to confiscate it, however, they make exception to if your house is near the school. That seems ridiculously outrageous to me and the entire issue that provoked this was students text'ing in class, I understand them having you put the cellphone in your locker during class to not tempt the student because admittedly that might be getting out of hand and it's best to cut that fad out of the equation before it really gets started but that's the end of it, afterward in my opinion there should be no rules regarding phones except perhaps using them while in the halls. I'm not sure if they actually will enforce the one-thousand feet ruling because I don't feel like they actually can confiscate something just because it's within one-thousand feet from where the school is felt like a hyperbole except they were serious. They have also included a new class within the curriculum entitled RTI which is basically where students are sent to whichever class they are doing most lousy with to assist with their problems in said class. This would actually be a good idea if they didn't have to slightly cut time in some periods to fit it in and what did they take time from? Our lunch period of course, which means if you have to walk to your house to eat because your parents are at work and you don't want to eat at the school like myself, you have to basically head back to class immediately after you get home. My other problem with RTI is as opposed to being a study-hall like period at which there is the teacher of whatever class you're having problems with circling the room and assisting you with whatever problem that you have with his or her respective lesson or worksheet to thus tutor you, instead it's basically a class as which assigns homework and worksheets to teach you things. Last year in RTI, I had a class for math and as opposed to going over potentially what I could have been having problems with they decided to leap a year or so ahead and review things that we hadn't ever been taught and essentially as opposed to assisting us they truly just jumbled and cluttered our minds by trying to teach us things that we really had no business learning yet and subtracted our focus toward our actual class we're trying to do better in.



If that doesn't successfully win the post of the year here on Off Topix than I'll be disappointed and feel somewhat screwed over.

What the.. Walk on the right side? What kind of crap is that? What they should have done. Was gather the trouble makers and have a private talk with them. Pardon the language, but your school sounds somewhat.. Assbackwards.

 

[Evil Eye]

So they're trying to introduce order? Good luck to them

I think they actually started allowing mobile phones here (not in class, obviously) because everyone was using them anyway

They introduced a similar class in the last 2 years at my school, but instead of taking away lunch break time they just added it in the afternoon, so we had to stay an hour longer. The class was completely useless and eventually everyone basically just started doing their homework instead of listening or doing the tasks we were supposed to do.

We got something like that... if your grades are below a certain point you'll be made to stay after school on specific day and just do homework... in silence.

Completely useless... unless you weren't doing your homework I guess.

 

[Irving]

My school has never done something like that - it's very senseless and really has no effect on the majority of teenagers who don't care that much about school to begin with. If our school did something like that - everybody would start laughing.

 

[Jazzy]

@Orion: Just curious as to what the reaction was from the students watching this.