iPods: Not Just For Michigan School kids anymore!
I honestly, really, did not believe anyone could reach an even greater depth in foolish thinking than the Michigan Democrats who decided the right way to address a huge - and growing - budget deficit was to buy every school kid in the state an iPod. Really,I thought that was about bottom. I should not have underestimated the tunneling ability of British bureaucrats. Because they are busy heading right for the center of the earth. They plan to reward behavior in British classrooms with free iPods! Not just any behavior, either!
They plan on rewarding bad behavior with a free gift!
School tearaways are to be offered mountain bikes and iPods in return for good behaviour.
In a government campaign against soaring indiscipline, teachers are being told to reward disruptive pupils with prizes and privileges.
Badly-behaved youngsters must be praised five times as often as they are punished or criticised under guidelines unveiled by Education Secretary Alan Johnson.
They can be offered prizes and privileges ranging from non-uniform days and extended breaktimes to CDs, cinema tickets, personal music players and state-of-the-art bicycles.
The scheme has been branded 'absurd'. Ministers were accused of 'going soft' on discipline and critics said the guidance would encourage pupils to expect prizes for good behaviour that should be considered the norm.
This is idiocy on steroids. Do they have even the most remote clue what hell they are about to unleash on the schools? Silly question, obviously they don't. Pity the British teachers right about now. They are about to be overwhelmed with bad behaving school kids looking for the next free gift.
World news | Gaius Tuesday, 10 April , 2007
By old_dawg, Tuesday, 10 April , 2007 @ 8:48 pm
Seems like you could give each kid a grey squirrel (ref. your article on this) and let that be their reward.
By crosspatch, Wednesday, 11 April , 2007 @ 10:44 am
Apparently the iPod is standard issue for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. It seems that the Iranians kept this vital piece of weaponry that they discovered on one of the Brits they captured. I say the service member should have tossed this bit of kit into the drink lest the Iranians get their hands on this advanced technology. Alas, it is too late now. It won’t be long before we have iPods being planted all over the West.