Those Short Weeks are Killer (continued)
by John Pearson
The best thing of all would be the joy and excitement on every student’s face when they recovered on Wednesday evening and realized that they still had more than four days before having to report back to school.
In conclusion: Time would be saved. Money would be saved. I’m just going to go ahead and say that research has shown that Academic Performance would be increased. Nothing but checks in the Win column!
Then again, three-day weeks ARE intense enough as it is. One-day school weeks might just turn every teacher and student into a mini-Jack Bauer, paranoid and aggressive. We’ve got enough kids and teachers like that already.
John Pearson is a third-grade math and science teacher in Dallas, Texas. He has degrees in mechanical engineering from Duke University and Texas A&M, so most consider his math abilities adequate enough to teach nine-year olds. He is also the author of Learn Me Good (Lulu, 2006), a funny, fictionalized account of his first year in education. Read more at www.learnmegood.com
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Here's how it works, student remote in to school and all instruction is interactive computer driven. Just think of it, a student cuts up and rather than send them to the Dean or whatever your schools calls the Hatchet Man ... they get a "Time Out" right in their very own room. Video monitoring is in place the entire school day to insure compliance and no Nacho Chips with salsa snurfing while in Time Out.
Think of the savings. No transportation save for clubs and sports. No school use except for planned communal events. The wardrobe savings for teachers would be incredible just in itself. I mean, you can pick up a couple pairs of pajamas and slippers at Walmart for CHEAP. Of course, there would be a corresponding rise in coffee consumption; but that's a minor downside. Work with me people, not against me :)
Posted by Priest on Jan 23, 2009 9:46 pm