There are certain things in life that I don't think I will ever truely understand. Our school has been through many transitions in the past years. I have taught here for 6 years and have had 4 different principals. We have had a high turn over of teachers because of that during the past few years. I think there are only 8 people that have been at this school longer than me. Not only our teachers have changed but also our districting so we have a completely differnt student body than when I started here. We have quite a few "difficult" students from some very rough areas of our county.
Well this week we implemented a silent hallway policy. We decided that this was neccessary because of the noise levels in the halls, disrespect to teachers and to peers, general misconduct, fighting, bullying, you name it, it was going on during class changes. We had kids, teachers and parents all complaining of how bad the situation was getting. So we took action. We decided no talking would take place in the halls at all. Students are to walk silently on the right side of the hall to change classes.
Since this has happened, the teachers have already noticed improvements on how much instructional time we have regained, we have less problems in the hallways, there have been less fights, less disciplinary forms filed. We have enjoyed the quiet and ease of getting our students started in their lessons.
Well the same parents that were concerned with the bad behavior are now of the opinion that our actions are too harsh. That we are punishing the many for the few. I guess the fact that the complaints they had before are gone they need to complain about something new.
I don't know. I guess no matter what you do, whether it has good results or not, someone is going to be unhappy with your actions.
Well this week we implemented a silent hallway policy. We decided that this was neccessary because of the noise levels in the halls, disrespect to teachers and to peers, general misconduct, fighting, bullying, you name it, it was going on during class changes. We had kids, teachers and parents all complaining of how bad the situation was getting. So we took action. We decided no talking would take place in the halls at all. Students are to walk silently on the right side of the hall to change classes.
Since this has happened, the teachers have already noticed improvements on how much instructional time we have regained, we have less problems in the hallways, there have been less fights, less disciplinary forms filed. We have enjoyed the quiet and ease of getting our students started in their lessons.
Well the same parents that were concerned with the bad behavior are now of the opinion that our actions are too harsh. That we are punishing the many for the few. I guess the fact that the complaints they had before are gone they need to complain about something new.
I don't know. I guess no matter what you do, whether it has good results or not, someone is going to be unhappy with your actions.
1 comments:
Well it has been said "You can please some of the people some of the time. But you can't please all of the people all the time."
I think that sometimes people just need something to bitch about.
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