"Go put your name on the board!"

[2Eskiedogs]

We had the "stand in the corner" punishment. It seemed like the next step was the desk in the hall. And there did seem to be those kids that were always there. Just like the girl who peed her pants everyday in 3rd grade, her punishment was to sit in her wet clothes(there was no calling home for a change in clothes).

I did get whacked on the head a few times with a ruler by my 2nd grade teacher for not holding my pencil correctly

 

[nuttylawprofessor]

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

Didn't speak to Sean for a few months after the day he took names.

 

[Lintasare]

At my school the punishment was at recess you had to sit against the wall and write sentances over and over. Usually it was whatever you got in trouble for. For example I once had to write..."I will do my homework" over and over all recess.

 

[disfan07]

Yeah seriously. Soem of the parents on these boards...well....i feel bad for their kids....some of the things i have read on here just make me shake my head.

I'm only 20...so it has not been THAT long since I was in school but I do remember:

Elementary school:
Names on the board
Missing homeowrk=no recess
standing in the hallway
desks in the hallway
recess detention

Middle School:
HIP KID cards (you started out with 50 HIP KID points each quarter...if you were late, mising homework, disrespectful, etc you could lose points. It was up to the teachers how many points. Normal was: late to class=1 point; missing homework= 0 or 1 point depending on the teacher; disrespectful (talking in class, rude comments, etc)= up to 5 points depedning on teh teacher adn what it was....you could also get HIP KID points for helping the teacher, perfect attendance, etc (teachers decision)....at the end of each quarter if you had at least 45 HIP KID points you got to go to a pizza party

High school:
Hallway for minor offenses (ex: talking in class)
Sent to Subschool for continous offenses

I had my name on the board (more than once), recess detention (for no homeowrk AND talking), had to stand in teh hall (more than once) and missin gHIP KID points. I apparently do not learn very quickly But when I was younger I had a big mouth and I would get in trouble for either wise mouth comments or just for speaking my mind (like telling other kids what i REALLY thought of them)....i learned by about 9th grade how to control it...lol

 

[susykt4]

I LOVED getting sent out in the hall. I'd sneak up to the drinking fountains or wander and look at the artwork from other classes. A good friend in another classroom and I would arrange times to get kicked out of class so we could sit in the hallway and talk. I don't know if the teachers were really that stupid or if they were so sick of us they just didn't care.

Did anyone else use carbon paper to write their sentences? That was possibly my favorite discovery of 5th grade. Wow. I was a pain!

 

[Hedy]

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

I'm remembering that once a little kid wrote my name down for talking in class-the brat next to me was cracking her knuckles, and I asked her to stop.

 

[C.Ann]

Back when I was in elementary school (when dinosaurs still roamed the earth) we didn't do the "write your name on the board" thing.. Acutally, I've never heard of it until I read this thread - LOL..

Our teachers would make us write and write and write some more - on our lined paper.. 100 times.. "I will not chew gum in class." - or "I will not talk during class." - etc.. Luckily I didn't have to do it often at all - I had a very healthy respect for my teachers and their rules - but on the 1 or 2 occasions that I had to, it took me forever because I was so fussy about my penmanship..

Writing my name on the board sounds wonderful to me!! Piece of cake!!!

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I do something similar in my classroom. The last 25 minutes of the day is "choice time". If you make good choices during the day then you get to choose from two different activities. This includes finishing your work for the day. Each kid has a choice folder and it has to be empty to get it.

If we are having a bad choices day, the whole class may lose minutes off of it. I keep a stopwatch going and however long I have to wait is however long they have to wait. If it's on student in particular causing a problem, their names goes on the board with the amount of choice time lost.

 

[Minnie]

I still remember the teacher that wrote our names in a "trash can" she drew on the chalk board for infractions... I believe she retired soon after

 

[FireDancer]

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.

Oh boy was that me. Not only was I a talkative kid but I usually picked up everything pretty easily and on the first time. When the teacher was explaining it for the 5th time for kids I would get bored and boredom usually led to something necessitating putting my name on the board.