So we’re talking about sentencing and punishment today in my Courts/Criminal Procedure class and one of students makes a comment that we should have a return of gladiator battles for punishment. “For whom?” I ask. “Child molesters” he says. So then I ask if he expected them to have slap fights in the ring and then we riffed on child molesters beating each other with large all-day suckers — want some candy? Whack! One of my students made a tickle-fight comment in reference to ex-Rep. Massa… surreal, but fun day in class today. I’m not sure if much was learned today, but a good time was had by all.
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Sounds kind of like my day yesterday. A teacher upstairs from me and I played Cool Hand Luke with a couple of his students. His fourth grade class lines up outside my room on the sidewalk and wait to go upstairs at one point during the day. While out there a couple of his idiot, problem student were kicking dirt from a patch of soil next to my classroom window, onto the sidewalk. He saw it and made them come back down and sweep it off the sidewalk back into the dirt with a broom. I called him up, and we had them going back and forth moving that dirt on and off the sidewalk for an hour. A janitor walked by who didn’t know what we were up to, yelled at them for throwing dirt on the sidewalk, and I started it all over when they were sweeping the dirt onto my land. When I thought they had enough, I told them to go back upstairs and give their teacher this message: What we have here is failure to communicate. He called down to my room laughing his ass off.
I wonder how well that would have worked with those of high school age.
Nice payback, though! Very creative. Sure beats a “time-out!”