Sunday, February 20, 2005

It's All the Teacher's Fault - Episode 1

A colleague sent a boy to the office because he was not only out of his seat, but running in circles around the room. There is paperwork that goes with sending kids to the office, and the form has a box that is about 3 inches by 2 inches, where you are supposed to explain the incident. It is TOO SMALL. Many times, the administration seems to think that the incident described there is the only thing that happened, rather than the culminating behavior in a series of misbehaviors, the one that caused the teacher to think, finally, "Okay, this kid just isn't going to settle down." So, my colleague is called to the office after school, where he is told that it is his fault that the boy was running around the room, because -- get ready -- he didn't have any rules posted saying that it wasn't okay. By this logic, every bank would need to post a sign saying, "No Robberies Allowed." Wouldn't it?

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