tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post3399418288913599134..comments2024-03-18T01:24:59.573-05:00Comments on a blog about school: Talking down to kidsChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12919030671050831251noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-39433028567606127862011-12-20T20:44:55.966-06:002011-12-20T20:44:55.966-06:00Tchr -- Thanks for commenting! I cringe when I th...Tchr -- Thanks for commenting! I cringe when I think of what the money that has gone into PBIS at our school might have bought.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07559356125770114400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-23964555993594590912011-12-20T16:22:30.388-06:002011-12-20T16:22:30.388-06:00My school has these signs too. The kids don't ...My school has these signs too. The kids don't read them. The signs are for the visitors we have. The signs are on nice banners. I am sure the school is proud on how much money we spend to let visitors know that our kids know how to behave in the hallways and bathroom.Tchrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-41462747223999201342011-11-23T00:53:13.806-06:002011-11-23T00:53:13.806-06:00I haven't seen the bathroom signs, I'll ha...I haven't seen the bathroom signs, I'll have to look for them next time I'm at the school.<br /><br />I did notice some similar signs in the hallway about behavioral expectations that seemed over the top.<br /><br />The bathroom signs would bug me...especially the part about taking care of my business quickly.KDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07883213697051461818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-7652629541468303622011-11-22T19:24:08.395-06:002011-11-22T19:24:08.395-06:00Chris -- Great post as usual. My own "Signs S...Chris -- Great post as usual. My own "Signs Signs, Everywhere A Sign" post is still in my drafts file. What I'm wondering is, who makes the decision to post these signs? Are they an official part of the PBIS program? Would there be some way to question or challenge them in, say, a parent council meeting? I would feel quite uncomfortable if my kids attended a school in which such Orwellian directives were plastered everywhere. <br /><br />There are signs in my kids' middle school, but they're not quite so condescending. I'm going to look more closely at them, though, next time I'm there.StepfordTOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08340282997915000608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-40922214922696435612011-11-22T09:58:04.376-06:002011-11-22T09:58:04.376-06:00Doris -- Yes, more on that topic in my next post ....Doris -- Yes, more on that topic in my next post . . .Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07559356125770114400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-82327612943830917812011-11-22T09:50:23.743-06:002011-11-22T09:50:23.743-06:00Just a comment re: the quotation from Jefferson b...Just a comment re: the quotation from Jefferson by Homework Blues on the price of liberty being eternal vigilance. It seems to me that "eternal vigilance" is getting a perverse spin in the expectation that students "report inappropriate activities."<br /><br />Chris rightly critiques the pretense that "kids themselves are issuing the rules," but what to make of this vague directive to put one another under surveillance and become part of the actual enforcement apparatus? Does "inappropriate" refer (only) to the preceding list of rules? If so, what about the countervailing commonsense wisdom children learn that it's not a good idea to rat out their classmates--at least as long as the "inappropriate" activity at issue is nothing that would put another person in harm's way? Or is "inappropriate" a euphemism for something else that they don't want to spell out--strange men lurking in the stalls, etc.Dorisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-85241421887369262172011-11-22T00:03:11.271-06:002011-11-22T00:03:11.271-06:00HomeworkBlues -- Thanks for commenting! And anoth...HomeworkBlues -- Thanks for commenting! And another thing: what would be wrong with talking in conversational voices in the bathroom? (The sign explains that "Voice level 0 or 1" means "Quiet" or "Whispering.")Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07559356125770114400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-59831759184402188092011-11-21T23:59:13.172-06:002011-11-21T23:59:13.172-06:00FedUpMom -- Ha, yeah, those "Successories&quo...FedUpMom -- Ha, yeah, those <a href="http://www.successories.com/categories/Motivational-Posters/14/1" rel="nofollow">"Successories"</a> would drive me crazy. People have some pretty funny ideas about what's "motivational."<br /><br />Readers -- FedUpMom links to spoof posters <a href="http://kidfriendlyschools.blogspot.com/2011/11/demotivators.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07559356125770114400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-52072025901864104372011-11-21T22:29:56.152-06:002011-11-21T22:29:56.152-06:00Restroom Expectations. I can think of a hundred jo...Restroom Expectations. I can think of a hundred jokes already. This would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.<br /><br />It's a school, folks. Not a prison. <br /><br />Creepy, actually. Good that you have a sharp eye for all of this. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." Thomas JeffersonHomeworkBluesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8285353362748898720.post-35801898407429972172011-11-21T08:40:47.192-06:002011-11-21T08:40:47.192-06:00Chris, you're lucky that you never worked in a...Chris, you're lucky that you never worked in an office with "motivational" posters on the wall. Also, their really are workplaces with rules like that posted around -- again, you're lucky that your job isn't like that.<br /><br />Not that any of that makes it OK for the kids!FedUpMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00951858601020687242noreply@blogger.com