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British school bans raising hands
Pupils have been stopped from putting their hands up to answer questions because their school believes it leads to feelings of victimisation.
“No hands up” notices have been posted in every room at the Jo Richardson comprehensive in Dagenham, east London, as a reminder that the teachers will decide who should answer.
The head, Andrew Buck, says it is always the same children who wave their arms in the air, while the rest of the class sits back. When teachers try to involve less adventurous pupils by choosing them instead, that leads to feelings of victimisation.
Mr Buck believes that it can also cause panic in children who are picked but do not know the answer while others around them are straining to give it. To spare the embarrassment of those who do not know the answer, the school uses a “phone a friend” system, allowing one child to nominate another to take the question instead.
File this under “what will they think of next?”
Hat tip: The Steel Deal (via Bill Quick)
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Ah. Flashbacks of school. I was always one who knew the answer and I remember the teacher saying, “let’s have someone else besides Doug” or “I know you know the answer, let’s see who else knows”.
The “no hands up” policy is now the teacher decides policy but the students who didn’t know still won’t know the answer. It’s not being a victim. It’s the teacher identifying who needs help for goodness sakes. Life isn’t fair! (Don’t I know that)
What happens when kids who have been raised with this kind of obsessive “self-esteem” focus get out into the real world? There are some distrubing indications..
link
Ya wanna talk “victimhood”?
Try being the only smart kid in a room full of dumbasses who can’t wait to kick your butt because you’re always raising your hand and giving the answer.
(It eludes these freaks that the alternative is to sit there and wait until some other blow-hole raises their hand. Hell, we’d all still be there waiting, if that were the case).
I never understood teachers asking students questions, anyway. THE ANSWER IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, ON YOUR ANSWER KEY! Just give it to us and let’s move on!
Hey, thanks for the link.
ElC … I was one of those. I gave up answering questions in the 7th grade.
Took it back up when I turned 35.
Please Miss may I ask a question. How does not ask a question without raising a hand?
What if you have to go the the bathroom, do you wait for the teacher to ask???
No, harrylooker, all students will use the facilities simultaneously, therefore nobody is singled out.
Further, students will be required to produce uniform, uh … oh, forget it, I can’t go there in this forum. I won’t even mention the refrigerator magnets.
- HarryL – they have a special prep course in “grimmicing, knee squeezing, and modern desk dancing 101″ to cover that….
Bang –
Modern education is neither modern nor education.
Steve Sk, but if they have to get in line for the toilet, isn’t that a hierarchy leading to feelings of self-loathing and low self esteem?
Is it just me or does the “phone a friend” bring a “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” memory? I don’t think that’s enough lifelines.
As someone who wasn’t always raising their hand – I think having “Ask the Class” and “50/50″ options would be helpful.
That stuff happens here in America all the time.
Take for example a company like Wal-Mart. This has made it part of their policy to forbid employees with degrees from top tier universities from displaying their achievment in the office. Because they say it makes other from lesser schools feel uncomfortable.
But at the same time it encourages folks with degrees from crappy community colleges to proudly and prominently display their lesser achievement.
They like many other want intellectuals to dumb down so they can feel more comfortable with being ignorant and stupid.