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Communication between parents and teachers
By: Plagosus Date: May 31, 2023, 4:00 pm
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The BOTD in the above thread and in not a few others, all I
think (I have not checked) devised by those on the western side
of the Atlantic, involve a teacher reporting bad behaviour to
parents. Is this a regular thing in the USA and is it recent? I
do not know what the practice is today in the UK, but when I was
a boy, on the whole, what went on in school stayed in the
school. It would only be when things started to really get out
of hand or there was a serious incident that a parent would be
informed.
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Re: Communication between parents and teachers
By: Jack Date: May 31, 2023, 5:10 pm
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In my personal experience (growing up in the 70s) you're right.
However, I think it depends on two things:
1) Where they go to school. I believe this type of
communication is and always has been more common in private
schools (possibly because of lower student/teacher ratios).
2) I think it's more common now, because:
a) some school's have rules that you have to notify parents
for after school detention or corporal punishment and possibly
other situations.
b) because many schools have less options in discipline, so
there's a temptation to 'make it the parents problem'.
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Re: Communication between parents and teachers
By: Zyngaru Date: June 3, 2023, 4:21 pm
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[quote author=Plagosus link=topic=2943.msg27147#msg27147
date=1685566851]
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The BOTD in the above thread and in not a few others, all I
think (I have not checked) devised by those on the western side
of the Atlantic, involve a teacher reporting bad behaviour to
parents. Is this a regular thing in the USA and is it recent? I
do not know what the practice is today in the UK, but when I was
a boy, on the whole, what went on in school stayed in the
school. It would only be when things started to really get out
of hand or there was a serious incident that a parent would be
informed.
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My experience in school, the 50's and 60's, when you got
punished at school, no matter what it was, a note was sent home
for our parents to sign, and we had to bring it back the next
day all signed. Many a boy got in extra trouble for forging
their parent's signature on those notes. The reason: Most of
us got whipped at home for a paddling at school. It had nothing
to do with what school rule we broke. It was a home rule we
broke. That rule was if you get in trouble at school, you get a
whipping when you get home. Yes, it's double jeopardy, but we
were kids and had no way to change it.
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Re: Communication between parents and teachers
By: Paddle Me Date: June 5, 2023, 10:01 am
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[quote author=Zyngaru link=topic=2943.msg27173#msg27173
date=1685827318]
My experience in school, the 50's and 60's, when you got
punished at school, no matter what it was, a note was sent home
for our parents to sign, and we had to bring it back the next
day all signed. Many a boy got in extra trouble for forging
their parent's signature on those notes. The reason: Most of
us got whipped at home for a paddling at school. It had nothing
to do with what school rule we broke. It was a home rule we
broke. That rule was if you get in trouble at school, you get a
whipping when you get home. Yes, it's double jeopardy, but we
were kids and had no way to change it.
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Was it "Double Jeopardy?" My father considered the consequences
at school were for the behavior at school but the paddling at
home was the consequence for getting in trouble at school. So,
that did not rise to the level of "Double Jeopardy," at least
not in his mind. It worked too. As much trouble as I seemed to
get myself in outside of school, I rarely got in trouble at
school (and/or I was able to find and skate on the edge of the
line between good and bad).
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