Isn't it time to make parents pay for their kids (non-students) peeing in the educational pool? As we know, it only takes a few real pissers to disrupt the learning for an entire class (the educational pool). All your preparation and work is dissipated by these non-students who are not attending school to be students and intent on undermining your right to teach and the other students' right to learn.
Across the school level, it is the same few bozos who undermine education with repeated visits to administration. Whether the administrators do anything about it is another story as it varies greatly from administrator to administrator and school to school.
There's good news in that this problem is finally being recognized by lawmakers and reported in the media. Ray Hagar's article "Lawmakers want parents to pay for unruly students" in the March 20th Reno Gazette-Journal reads:
Sens. Joyce Woodhouse, D-Henderson, and Dennis Nolan, R-Las Vegas, told a Senate committee Monday that slapping a fee on the parents of unruly students might help get them more involved in their children's education.
"Maybe we will get the parents' attention if by no other way than hitting them in the pocketbook," Nolan said.
The students assigned detention would be those who consistently disrupt the classroom and the learning of other students, Nolan said. The pay-for-detention concept would be the last resort before students are expelled, he said.
You can read the entire article here.
Comments (1)
I have sent kids to the principal's office for disrupting my class and they come back with candy! Hmm, what kind of message does that send to the others?
Something needs to be done with the repeat offenders who refuse to do their work and refuse sto stop disturbing others.
Posted by Anonymous | March 26, 2007 5:53 AM