"Go put your name on the board!"

[starrzone]

When I was in the first year of a late French-immersion program in Grade 7 there was a contest going between the girls and boys in the class. If a girl heard a boy speaking English in class, and vice versa, the "offender" had to go and write their name on the board. At the end of the day, everyone whose name was on the board had to sing a corny French kids' song of the teacher's choice in front of the entire class. It was a HOOT!

 

[luvmy3]

We had a nun who was famous for her ruler swats. She'd come and swat your hand with that ruler, and she'd just look so pissed!

But she was the sweetest darn lady ever. When she wasn't swatting...

There were a few swatters there but by the time I got to HS they really didn't do that too much anymore. It must have been around the same time as Familyof4 (when the law changed ) because I had a nun that my father had and he said she was brutal with her ruler when he was in school

 

[HelenePA]

I never had to stand in the hall, but I did have my whole desk moved out there a few times

NICE!

For my dd7's class the student of the month has to write the names on the board. If your name is on the board you dont get recess for the day. For my 9yr dd the teacher sends home a graph showing if/when/how your child has misbehaved for the week. So far nothing but green (good) blocks for her. Now my 7yr old has claims she's never missed recess but I find that so hard to believe! She does NOT stop talking at home.. God bless her teachers!

 

[Thumper_Man]

I don't remember having to do that but I do remember having to go stand in the hall.

I remember this one to. I went to a private school and the school wasn't very big. Occasionally the principal would walk by and would ask why you were standing in the hall. Principal knew you did something bad and you would land up in his/her office. My mom would get a call and boy, was I in even bigger trouble when I got home.

Depending on the teacher, some wouldn't send you out into the hall; but rather make you stand in the corner of the classroom. The longer you misbehaved, the longer you stood there.

 

[Momvic5]

I remember writing our names on the board....but it was secretly cool to get to write on the board.

When I was in the 4th grade, I had a math teacher that would make us stand in front of the class with a stack of dictionaries in our arms, or she would draw a small circle on the board just above where your nose would naturally come and make you stand on your tippy-toes with your nose in the circle. If that didn't straighten you out, she would take her yard stick and pop your open hand 3 times....can imagine this in today's classrooms?!

Another one...if you made a low grade on a paper, she would announce that you had the potential to be a garbage man or woman to the class!!

 

[Katieinwonderland]

At my school (a little village school in England where there were only 20 kids in a class, and only one class per grade!) if you misbehaved you had to stand out in the hall too. I remember it happened to me once when I was talking too much, and I was terrified the headmaster (principal!) would come by!

I'm only 24 so I wasn't in school that long ago, but things seem so different now - I don't know if it's a cultural thing and the difference is between Engand and the US, or if kids in school are just treated differently. I remember being swatted with a ruler by my teacher on the back of my hand, and when I went home and told my mom the teacher swatted me, she told me I should have been behaving in the first place! Today I could probably sue!

 

[wdwfan16]

Our teacher wrote our names on the board. I don't remember Xs or checks but we had to write lines that night since we had our name on the board. It worked for me. I only did lines a few times.

 

[Erin1700]

We used to have to write dictionary pages! The teacher would just say "All kids with their names on the board, write page 115 of the dictionary" and then they sent home the book with you to use. It was funny when one of the pages had a "bad word" on it!! From then on, the teacher skimmed the page first!

 

[Rora]

In first grade in DS7's class, the teacher will write their name on the board, if they improve their behavior their name gets erased. If it is still there by the end of the day, they get a calendar mark which a parent has to sign.

This is what I do in my 3rd grade classroom. It's very effective.

I was subjected to this myself! Always worked!

 

[Katie's Butterflies]

When I was in elementary school (private) there was a paddle hanging in several classrooms and the principal’s office. The teachers did not actually use them. Instead, they were there to “instill the fear of God into our hearts” (or more specifically, our bottoms)

When I was in the 4th grade, I had a math teacher that would make us stand in front of the class with a stack of dictionaries in our arms, or she would draw a small circle on the board just above where your nose would naturally come and make you stand on your tippy-toes with your nose in the circle. If that didn't straighten you out, she would take her yard stick and pop your open hand 3 times....can imagine this in today's classrooms?!

Another one...if you made a low grade on a paper, she would announce that you had the potential to be a garbage man or woman to the class!!

Did we have the same teacher?

I never had to stand in the hall, but I did have my whole desk moved out there a few times

One little boy in my second grade class must have spent an entire quarter out in the hall! (he was out there until he figured out that he could wander the halls without the teacher knowing). He’d pop into the other classrooms and say “hi.” He quickly earned a permanent spot next to the teacher (for the next 3 years).

 

[nuttylawprofessor]

All these school-related parental gripes got me thinking...

Do you remember your teachers telling you to "write your name on the board" in school if you misbehaved?

Then you had to do the walk of shame up to the chalkboard to write your name on the board.

And if you continued misbehaving, you had to add a check next to your name on the board!

I think I remember that if your name was on the board, you had to write X amount of sentences that night, and if you had a check next to your name, you had to write X amout more.

I don't know if kids do this anymore, but it seems like something else that would upset parents, but I don't remember ever being embarassed by this.

Ugh. I was embarrassed! Turned several shades of red: almost the same shade of red/purple I would sport after my dismal attempts to run the mile. There were lines involved. Lots of lines. But it usually cured my behavior and attitude for a while. The hardest part was trying to hide having to write lines from my parents. I didn't want to get into double trouble.

 

[shortbun]

Once a teacher told me to stand in the corner and the principal walked in so I got busy with the plants on the window sill like I was taking care of them, lol! The principal walked out without saying a word to me. When the teacher realized I had pulled the wool over her eyes, she laughed and let me sit down-whew!!!

Also, I was told to write my name on the board and I wrote this boy's name instead. He was always getting in trouble anyway so the teacher never noticed. I haven't thought about these things in years. I was obviously a handfull!!!

 

[tae1218]

I can remember writing "I will not talk when the teacher is talking" 100 times.

 

[Becky2005]

Not directly the same thing but we still have something similar in Kindergarten here. Everyone starts out with a green happy face card at the beginning of every day -- if you misbehave enough, you are told to change your card to yellow, then it goes to blue I think, then red -- I'm not 100% sure but I think there may be 4 or 5 colors. I think blue is a phone call home to talk to the parent, red ends up in the principal's office & I think it has to be pretty severe to get to that point.

I did have to tell my youngest after school first started that I did NOT want to hear who had their cards turned to yellow UNLESS it was him. He has brought home a yellow card a few times -- to which he always seems to want to tell me it wasn't HIS fault -- one of his friends was talking to him & he was answering -- oh well...YOUR fault...I don't even want to hear how it wasn't your fault -- you were part of the talking group.

I know the teacher doesn't make them turn their card to yellow until after they have had some verbal warnings, so it's not an instant thing.

Not quite the same thing as writing your name on the board but your name is next to the slips of paper. The papers come home in their folders every day.

I don't have a clue what they do in the older grades as I can't remember for my older kids. I know in MS it tends to be "you earn bonus bucks & if you screw up you have to give me some of your money back" -- then the money is used to buy things at their store. If you REALLY mess up, then it's detentions, principal's office, those types of things but for the general classroom stuff, I think it's the paper system.

I haven't got a clue what it is in HS. I'm sure I got papers on it but at some point. It's more than likely points off in the classroom, detentions, dean's office, etc... depending on the infraction.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I went to so many schools so it gets blended....

But I had a teacher in second grade that instead of putting bad names on the board--each row of students was numbered and if we were getting a little out of hand, she used a cue (usually turned her back to us and started counting) and then turn around. The quiet rows got checks on the board.

The reward was extra recess time or something extra in the classroom that was fun.

My most embarassing moment--though I never repeated the infraction--

My first grade class was walking in the hall and returning to our classroom. I knocked on a door as I passed by (couldn't help myself---no idea why). The teacher came out--and she was a meanie. She asked who knocked on the door and all the kids pointed at me.

She then took me into her classroom to the front of the class and they got to hear about how I was such a naughty little girl.

Never made that choice again.

 

[Sparx]

Does anyone remember teachers making kids "take names" when the teacher left the room? I HATED that!

 

[Becky2005]

I should say I had the coolest teacher in 2nd grade and the ONLY thing I can remember about him is his name and the dalmation dogs he had up.

Each of us had a dalmation with our names on it -- on this bulletion board was also a doghouse. If you were bad, you had to put your dog in the doghouse.

However, in addition to that he had a dog bone on a yarn necklace. He would choose a child to wear the dog bone for the day -- it was a HUGE deal to get to wear the dog bone. I ended up getting toward the end of May.

There were also days no one got the bone.

 

[OceanAnnie]

If we got in trouble we had to go to the chalk board, draw a circle and put our nose in it. If the teacher left the room all of the other kids would fill your hair with spit balls.

Yep. We had the same thing.

Does anyone remember teachers making kids "take names" when the teacher left the room? I HATED that!

I remember that too.

Also, if kids misbehaved they had to run laps at recess. The worse the offense, the more the laps.

 

[LaraK]

My kindergartener has a beautiful rainbow of colors in his folder.

 

[ashjohnson80]

omg i do remember that! i don't think i actually ever got my name on the board though.