No Hall Sweeps?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today I asked a group of kids being noisy outside my door to go to class. They moved about 3 feet away. They got louder. I went out again to ask them to keep it down. One said to the group "is that b* still talking?"

Some variation of this happens regularly.

I did one loop around my floor today for about 3 minutes. Encountered at least 2 dozen kids and no security.

This is outrageous.

When admins say things like "research doesn't support " hall sweeps I think k of every fake research paper that got busted along with the fact that nearly zero psychology study could be reproduced with the same result.
In otherworlds, asmin needs to statt using their own brains.

Whenever people say there is no research to support xyz, I wonder if xyz has been researched.

There’s another MCPS policy that is impacting my ability to do my job effectively in MCPS. Admin keeps stating that all the research says blah blah blah yet I have scoured research on this topic and found it contradicts what MCPS claims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Or don’t care. I’ve had parents tell me their kids are the school’s problem during school hours and to stop calling them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Then you kick the kid out of school until the parent has a meeting with the school. Easy.

How is the weather from wherever you are posting from?

It's not WHERE the PP is posting, it's WHEN which is clearly the 1970s when schools still had discipline and most parents cared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Or don’t care. I’ve had parents tell me their kids are the school’s problem during school hours and to stop calling them.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Then you kick the kid out of school until the parent has a meeting with the school. Easy.

How is the weather from wherever you are posting from?

It's not WHERE the PP is posting, it's WHEN which is clearly the 1970s when schools still had discipline and most parents cared.

Actually it's WHERE because even the 70s, a teacher could not the kid out of public school. It's clearly someone who does not know how public school works in this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Then you kick the kid out of school until the parent has a meeting with the school. Easy.

How is the weather from wherever you are posting from?

It's not WHERE the PP is posting, it's WHEN which is clearly the 1970s when schools still had discipline and most parents cared.

Actually it's WHERE because even the 70s, a teacher could not the kid out of public school. It's clearly someone who does not know how public school works in this country.

I didn't take PP's use of "you" to literally mean the teacher. I took it to mean the school system or society in general. So I stick by my statement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Then you kick the kid out of school until the parent has a meeting with the school. Easy.

How is the weather from wherever you are posting from?

It's not WHERE the PP is posting, it's WHEN which is clearly the 1970s when schools still had discipline and most parents cared.

Parents didn't care either then. The difference is how the schools were run and there were consequences and kids got detention, Saturday school, and other punishments and ultimately suspended or expelled. They'd fail a class they didn't show up for.

And, the teaching style was much more structured and not some made up non-sense with no textbooks with homework or reinforcement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Then you kick the kid out of school until the parent has a meeting with the school. Easy.

How is the weather from wherever you are posting from?

It's not WHERE the PP is posting, it's WHEN which is clearly the 1970s when schools still had discipline and most parents cared.

Actually it's WHERE because even the 70s, a teacher could not the kid out of public school. It's clearly someone who does not know how public school works in this country.

I remember in high school kids getting kicked out. It happened in the 80's and 90's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Then you kick the kid out of school until the parent has a meeting with the school. Easy.

Simple mind, simple solution. LOL

It is simple. Hold parents accountable if their kids don't go to school, show up for class or misbehave. If the kids are acting up, require the parents to go to school with the kids to make them behave. If the parents have to miss work, maybe they will become better parents and discipline their kids and hold their kids accountable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Then you kick the kid out of school until the parent has a meeting with the school. Easy.

Simple mind, simple solution. LOL

It is simple. Hold parents accountable if their kids don't go to school, show up for class or misbehave. If the kids are acting up, require the parents to go to school with the kids to make them behave. If the parents have to miss work, maybe they will become better parents and discipline their kids and hold their kids accountable.

How?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Then you kick the kid out of school until the parent has a meeting with the school. Easy.

How is the weather from wherever you are posting from?

It's not WHERE the PP is posting, it's WHEN which is clearly the 1970s when schools still had discipline and most parents cared.

My partner was paddled (corporal punishment) in public schools in the 1970s. I don't think we should go back to that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Then you kick the kid out of school until the parent has a meeting with the school. Easy.

How is the weather from wherever you are posting from?

It's not WHERE the PP is posting, it's WHEN which is clearly the 1970s when schools still had discipline and most parents cared.

Actually it's WHERE because even the 70s, a teacher could not the kid out of public school. It's clearly someone who does not know how public school works in this country.

I remember in high school kids getting kicked out. It happened in the 80's and 90's.

I don’t remember anyone getting really kicked out before high school or maybe middle school. But there was a ssoecual school for them, and then I think after 16 no one cared if they continued. U took summer school at the school for kids expelled from normal HS because they offered a lot of classes as independent study in the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens with tardies or absences? Is there a school consequence? And, are parents/guardians called?

If I got a call that one of my kids
was not in class, they’d be in trouble - lose the phone, etc.

Don’t update their contact info.
Don’t answer the phone.
Don’t listen to voicemails.

Then you kick the kid out of school until the parent has a meeting with the school. Easy.

How is the weather from wherever you are posting from?

It's not WHERE the PP is posting, it's WHEN which is clearly the 1970s when schools still had discipline and most parents cared.

Actually it's WHERE because even the 70s, a teacher could not the kid out of public school. It's clearly someone who does not know how public school works in this country.

I remember in high school kids getting kicked out. It happened in the 80's and 90's.

I don’t remember anyone getting really kicked out before high school or maybe middle school. But there was a ssoecual school for them, and then I think after 16 no one cared if they continued. U took summer school at the school for kids expelled from normal HS because they offered a lot of classes as independent study in the summer.

In MCPS, they suspended, gave detentions, saturday school and all that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach at a community college. The only way I can get students to show up on time is to give quizzes during the first 10 minutes of class. If they show up after the quiz has begun, they can't take it (can't earn points).

It feels punitive but I've tried lots of "carrots", none of which have worked. Can you do something similar in your class?

MCPS would not allow this.

This is such BS. I am so angry that the schools tolerate such bad behavior and that my taxes pay for this and we have to live with the degenerates they graduate.

[Anonymous]

Well, this just came out in Churchill's Sunday message, so someone is listening!!!

Hall Sweeps - Importance of On time Arrival to Class
As we all work towards Winter Break we want to remind you how important it is for students to be in school and in their classes on time. The school staff has seen a recent uptick in students arriving to school late, and in students not being in their classes when the late bell rings. As a school we will be addressing this issue with reminders to all students, as well as random hall sweeps of students still in the hallway when the late bell rings. During halls weeps, if students are in the hallway without a pass, then they will be assigned 30 minute lunch detentions and their parents will be contacted. Please talk with your child to remind them of the importance of being in class and at school on time. We appreciate your support in advance as we all work to help students be in class on time.