Lines and sentences at school

[Tim58]

Sounds like as many are given at home as in school. My wife teaches and is a big fan of them at school and at home.......much to our teenage daughters dismay.lol

 

[Cindy B]

Assigning lines as a punishment is frowned upon by a lot of schools these days.

I've seen some teachers call it "handwriting practice" though.

Isn't that the truth!

I'm a student teacher and it is the custom in the school to assign lines for misconduct. I just about fell out of my chair when I saw it for the first time.

And yes, I have heard the handwriting practice "line" as well.

Lines is a counterproductive exercise and makes students HATE writing. As a future lang. arts/writing teacher, that saddens me so much. My kids (in a young elementary setting) hate writing already because of the "lines" punishment.

There are tons of other ways to do this-- and lines just aren't worth it. It doesn't do anything educationally.

 

[I love OKW]

Catholic school

8th grade

The whole class had to write

"I will not over react to simple situations"

That line has stuck with me for over 30 years. It is definately something I have tried to remember.

Oh, and I have assigned that to some of my middle schoolers, but usually no more than 25.

 

[shortbun]

Never wrote any, never assigned any. I had a friend put two pencils together with a rubberband and get away with it though.

 

[MouseHouseUK]

We never had to do lines at school

Instead we had to do jobs around the classroom afterschool (like wash out the paintbrushes, clean the black/white board, tidy the books etc)

In the 5 years I was at school I only had 2 detentions and even they didnt last long as all the teacher did was wait to see who turned up, took our detention slip off us, tore it up and sent us home straight away

 

[Kath2003]

Not allowed to set lines as a punishment here. You have to come up with something of an 'educational value'. I set my detentionees interesting essays - "My favourite rock", "My favourite geography lesson", "The value of the rainforest" and so on.

 

[MM27]

When I was in 5th grade my teacher had a class credo hanging on the wall outside of his classroom. It was on several pieces of chart paper. It started at the ceiling and went all the way down to the floor. Any infracton was assigned a credo. You would have to go into the hallway and write in cursive the entire credo. Some infractions would be worth one, but others would be worth more. I think I only did one that whole year. I remember one boy in my class that spent more time in the hallway than he did in the classroom.

My first year as a teacher there was a guy on my grade level that sent a student of his to my room one day. The boy asked if he could sit in my room. I asked him what he had to do and he said, "copy the dictionary". He had to start with A and keep going until the teacher called him back. The next time they got in trouble, they had to continue where they left off.

My VP is very much against written punishments. One of our teachers got in trouble last year for a student writing lines, but it was later discovered that the parent assigned it and the kid was just completing it at school.

 

[Suzie Zoo]

I read the title of this thread several times trying to figure out what it meant... I gave up, so I opened it. LOL.

 

[mum4jenn]

"I will never ever talk in Mrs.Buchannon's 4th period Georgia History class ever again without permission when she has left the room. NO! NO! NO! NO! NEVER!!!!!"

500 times the WHOLE class. This was back in 1974 I think!!! I will ALWAYS remember those lines!!!

 

[Tim58]

"I will never ever talk in Mrs.Buchannon's 4th period Georgia History class ever again without permission when she has left the room. NO! NO! NO! NO! NEVER!!!!!"

500 times the WHOLE class. This was back in 1974 I think!!! I will ALWAYS remember those lines!!!

And did you ever talk in her class again? lol

 

[Jessiebugkovacs]

My 5th grade teacher made us write the entire Gettysburg address. There were several that wrote it enough to memorize it or at least most of it. It only took once for me!

 

[raysnkaysmom]

She spoke to me in a really hurtful tone. She got 500 of "I will not speak to mom in a rude tone". This was after a few warning and days of "no friends". Puberty is going to be the end of me.

LOL...DD12 decided to shave sideburns onto the side of her head (doesn';t look as bad as it sounds...but we were mad!!) Her dad gave her 3 choices... either no computer and grounded for 1 week, he gets to pick out her clothes for one week (no black!!!) or write ONE THOUSAND times "I WILL NOT SHAVE MY HEAD"

lol..she opted for being grounded...

cept...what makes me mad is..she conned him into cleaning his house and he let her on the computer the next night
Ugh...co-parenting in separate households has its trials with things like that!! LOL

 

[rchristiansen]

4th or 5th grade --- only 50 times

"I will not swing on the bathroom stall door."

We all were doing it

 

[JulyGirl]

I had a mean teacher in 5th grade who made my friend and I copy an entire page from this GIANT dictionary for talking in class. She actually compared my writing to the dictionary page. Even though my punishment was over 3 pages long, she noticed I missed ONE word from the dictionary. She ripped my papers up and made me do it again. Let's just say I never opened my mouth in Sr. Monica's class again.

 

[Magic Mom]

I went to parochial school, and we had to write "Alphies" in calligraphy. Alphies are a page full of the alphabet, starting a-z, then b-a then c-b, etc, etc all the way down the page util you get to a-z again. All in perfect calligraphy with no blotting (try that being left handed!) and no scratch-outs. The most I got was 20 pages. OUr whole class got them because people were talking in Anatomy while the teacher was in the hall talking to another teacher. This was in the 6th grade

 

[monsterkitty]

I had a student copy the definition of the word sorry until I got bored last year.

Every time I corrected his behavior or he got caught bothering a another student he would say sorry. One of the other kids finally asked him if he knew what the word meant and he said no. I figured if I had him copy the definition enough times he would learn the meaning.

I also sent this student for the bucket of steam one day. It took him 35 minutes before he figured out there was no such thing.

 

[FSUDisneyGirl]

I had a 3rd grader (with some behavior issues) call me "Stupid" because I didn't let him get his way about where he stood in line at the end of class. His teacher had him look up the word "stupid" in the dictionary and write it down with the definition, and then compare me to the definition. LOL it was great "Stupid means to be a foolish, and Ms.____ is not a foolish, she is usually smart."

I really think that it got him thinking about what he says about other people....quite an effective assignment, actually.

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

I had to write my locker combination 50 times last year.
I forgot it.
And now I remember.

 

[mum4jenn]

And did you ever talk in her class again? lol

I imagine I probably did not. BUT...it was pretty much the whole class talking so she punished the whole class!! I do also remember that a friend who had never ever had to write lines before was actually crying as she wrote her lines and I remember laughing at her. I told her it was just lines and she would live through it.

I also remember I used to chew gum quite a bit and when I was in 10th grade a coach warned me a couple of times and when he caught me chewing gum in class a third time he made me write lines. THAT got me to stop chewing gum and now in over 30 years since then I bet I have not chewed more than 10 pieces of gum. THat coach broke my habit!! LOL!!!

 

[Tim58]

I also remember I used to chew gum quite a bit and when I was in 10th grade a coach warned me a couple of times and when he caught me chewing gum in class a third time he made me write lines. THAT got me to stop chewing gum and now in over 30 years since then I bet I have not chewed more than 10 pieces of gum. THat coach broke my habit!! LOL!!![/QUOTE]

Our daughter also seems to have kicked the gum chewing habit after spending a large part of a saturday writing lines for a 2nd offence. I remember her complaining the teachers sentence was too long! lol