"Go put your name on the board!"

[AKL_Megs]

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.

 

[My sister's princess]

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.

Three checks = going to the office for us!

 

[MainStMandy]

Lol I do remember that!!

 

[LuvOrlando]

Oh yes, I remember. I never got in trouble like that because all it took was a teacher's look to shut me up. For me it worked as a deterrent but kids today are shameless. Armed with a diagnosis for every sort of bad behavior under the sun I doubt anything would bother a majority of them. Everyone has an excuse so who exactly would they put up there anyway? Too bad those diagnoses don't get them good jobs and friends, they are in for a rude awakening someday.

 

[jrmasm]

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

 

[golfgal]

I don't remember that we had to go up and write our own names on the board but the teachers sure did. It isn't like the other kids didn't know you were misbehaving. I got my name on the board once when a kid kicked me and I yelled "OUCH". The principal liked me and when she found out what happened she pull the boy out of class instead . It's too bad they don't still do that but you wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

 

[luvmy3]

In the lower grades there is a stop light and all the kids start aon green but if you misbehave you have to move your name to the yellow. If you REALLy misbehave you move to red and your parents get called.

 

[Mkrop]

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.

 

[Golf4food]

I had to write my name on the board once or twice in early elementary school days...

 

[AKL_Megs]

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

Oh, standing in the hall! I remember that, too! And the looks you would get from passersby Now THAT worked wonders.

Nowadays, it seems parents would gripe that, out in the hall, their kids aren't learning. Some lessons have nothing to do with The Three R's at all...

 

[BunsenH]

Our punishment was writing out the multiplication tables. This was usually assigned to the entire class regardless of how many misbehavers there were. Seemed pointless at the time, but I know my "time-ses".

Thoses nuns ran a tight ship. One teacher, 32-36 students.

 

[KimR]

I remember that. Now, instead of writing their name on the board, they have to 'sign in the book', which results in a check on their weekly report that gets sent home. Now, DD insists that kids are allowed to sign in for one another. In other words, Student A can write Student B's name in the book if Student B does something Student A doesn't like. I'm not quite sure I believe that. Either DD is confused or she was getting a check that week and trying to come up with an excuse as to why she really didn't deserve it.

 

[luvmy3]

Oh, standing in the hall! I remember that, too! And the looks you would get from passersby Now THAT worked wonders.

Nowadays, it seems parents would gripe that, out in the hall, their kids aren't learning. Some lessons have nothing to do with The Three R's at all...

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

 

[Familyof4lovesDW]

Yess. Then If you got a check you got detention which was no recess and a note had to be signed by you parents. 2 checks 2 detentions, 3 checks 3 detentions 4 checks to the principals office. This was in elementary school. We even had a sub once who would make a chalk circle on the board and you would have to put your nose on it, then you would have chalk on your nose. I was good so I never had to do that. Parents would go really crazy about that now. When I was in first grade they still used the pattle so kids would go in the coat area and get a swat when they got a check. When second grade came they did not paddle anymore. That is when the law must have passed. I graduated in the late 90's. They also did not have a excuse for their behavior, like the labels they use now. if you were bad, you were bad that is pretty simple.

 

[AKL_Megs]

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

Nice.

I never had that, but in 2nd grade, for what seemed like FOREVER, my desk was right up along side the teachers desk!

Then, in 6th grade, for pretty much ALL year, my desk was all alone in the BACK.



I hated it.

I was a bit of a socializer and class clown.

 

[AKL_Megs]

When second grade came they did not paddle anymore. That is when the law must have passed.

 

[kidshop]

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.

They still do it.... I have a first grader.....

I guess if you don't want to see your name on the board, then you should behave.

They also get a color stamp in their folder along with a number corresponding to their transgression. (talking, not doing work) And they all know who gets what.

 

[TaylorsDoDisney]

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.

 

[luvmy3]

Nice.

I never had that, but in 2nd grade, for what seemed like FOREVER, my desk was right up along side the teachers desk!

Then, in 6th grade, for pretty much ALL year, my desk was all alone in the BACK.



I hated it.

I was a bit of a socializer and class clown.

I was quite the socializer too and lucky for me that was when I went to public school. When I was in parochial school one of the nuns used to grab you by the hair and drag you back to a cubby in the back of the class and make you get in it and sit there for the rest of the day. There was one kid who was always back there, the rest of us were petrified of her, and the funny thing is she wasn't much bigger than us but she sure was strong

 

[AKL_Megs]

I was quite the socializer too and lucky for me that was when I went to public school. When I was in parochial school one of the nuns used to grab you by the hair and drag you back to a cubby in the back of the class and make you get in it and sit there for the rest of the day. There was one kid who was always back there, the rest of us were petrified of her, and the funny thing is she wasn't much bigger than us but she sure was strong

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...