Don’t Montessori schools have areas where kids can go to just chill or fart around whenever they feel like it? The idea that all kids have their bursts of energy land at exactly 10 AM or 1:30 PM, so that’s when ALL of them need recess just doesn’t mesh with reality.
My kindergarten teacher was appalled the first time I stood up and walked across the classroom during a lecture. She took to letting me alone do so, which didn’t help my popularity.
My sixth-grade teacher used to tell misbehaving boys to run a lap around the schoolhouse. Try that today and you’d have to pack the kid a lunch. In some schools, a tent and a sleeping bag.
Frazz17 hrs · There are few things that cannot be improved by a nice walk. Occasionally, someone else’s walk. My dog, of course, is a firm believer in the value of someone else’s walk combined with her own. Someone else with opposable thumbs and access to baggies. We know who’s in charge.
rekam Premium Member about 4 years ago
Caulfield makes me glad I didn’t go into the teaching profession as I’d originally thought.
Concretionist about 4 years ago
There’s a reason we had two “physical activity” sessions in our half-day kindergarten when I was a kid. And a nap.
whahoppened about 4 years ago
Panel 2, Still not a question, Caulfield.
jpayne4040 about 4 years ago
That’s why schools have / had both physical education and recess. Kids need to be active.
Ceeg22 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Fortunately once you get to middle school you get to walk between classes
asrialfeeple about 4 years ago
This is why they had P.E and Recess.
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 4 years ago
Don’t Montessori schools have areas where kids can go to just chill or fart around whenever they feel like it? The idea that all kids have their bursts of energy land at exactly 10 AM or 1:30 PM, so that’s when ALL of them need recess just doesn’t mesh with reality.
Stephen Gilberg about 4 years ago
My kindergarten teacher was appalled the first time I stood up and walked across the classroom during a lecture. She took to letting me alone do so, which didn’t help my popularity.
On the plus side, I never developed depression.
Ubermick about 4 years ago
Wait… so the solution to him being disruptive in class is now to “send him out to walk” with Frazz? Good grief…
aunt granny about 4 years ago
My sixth-grade teacher used to tell misbehaving boys to run a lap around the schoolhouse. Try that today and you’d have to pack the kid a lunch. In some schools, a tent and a sleeping bag.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 4 years ago
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Frazz17 hrs · There are few things that cannot be improved by a nice walk. Occasionally, someone else’s walk. My dog, of course, is a firm believer in the value of someone else’s walk combined with her own. Someone else with opposable thumbs and access to baggies. We know who’s in charge.