Frank Johns

Spare the rod: A continuing controversy

I remember the luncheon for new teachers just as if it were yesterday. Sitting in the cafeteria of the high school of a bedroom community near a large industrial city, I was excited and eager to face the challenges of teaching science in the junior high school. A member of the board of education, making welcoming remarks, mentioned that they believed in the board of education. This caused a little laughter, but didnt really make much of an impression on me at the time. During the following week or two, this casual comment struck home as I heard and saw the board of education, otherwise known as the paddle, being applied in the hallways of my school. Several of my students asked if I had a paddle. When I said no, they presented me with one, and all the students signed it. My introduction to paddling had begun, and in a few months I was a veteran to the system. I accepted it with little thought of the pros and cons. After all, didnt all the teachers do it? If I didnt paddle, would I be the only one not using the paddle, and, more important, would my students take advantage of me? I continued to use the paddle for three years. Then one winter I got mad at Tom for fooling around in my class, and I paddled him. He was a good boy, an average student in the ninth grade and wasnt usually a problem in class. Tom was absent several days and, since he was on the basketball team I coached, I was more aware of his not being in school. When he returned I asked him the usual questions: What was wrong? Were you sick? His response was simply, My back hurt me. Tom was not the type of person to use the paddling incident on me for any advantage. Nevertheless, I never used the paddle again.

Are Open Middle Schools Really Open

a dynamic and active school environment in which students could learn free from unnecessary restraint. a revitalized curriculum that included the analytical, the personal dynamics, and the expressive arts. grouping based on the rate of mental, physical, social, and emotional growth. activity programs in which boys and girls might take part separately and collectively. flexible schedules that support learning. guidance patterns that involve the entire staff in counseling. In short, the new middle school would build on the best of the junior high school movement but have few, if any, of its weaknesses. While educators were creating a new middle school, some educational planners were considering the effects of the physical environment on teaching and learning. Some of these educators and planners argued for an open-space school. They saw it as the best setting for anticipated changes such as team teaching, teaching machines, educational television, nongraded classes, the new math, and new curriculums. Alan Baas wrote:

Inservice Teacher Growth

This article tells the story of how a university can develop an on-site inservice program for teachers that deals with day-to-day, real-life issues of teaching. Such a program benefits both the univer sity and school participants.

Parents of Early Adolescents Don't have it Easy, Either

The early adolescents growing desire for autonomy and independence is continuous and is expressed in essentially similar ways at home and at school. The essence of this development is in the inevitable task of all adolescents to alter their close ties with their parents and to establish similar close ties with others. In some cases this moving away from parents is gentle, while in many instances the process is quite stormy and trying.

Too Tall or Too Small.

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