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DS6 came home with a page full of "I will not touch people in line".

Wow, I really thought that there were better punishments in public school these days. I guess detention, time in the principal's office and loss of recess just isn't working with DS6 anymore.

I remember when I was in Elm. I got in trouble for swinging on the vines at school. I had to write "I am not Jane" 100 times. I still laugh when I see tarzan on TV.

That would have taken my ds about a month to complete at age 6...a page?? Whew. Our ds is defnitely a touchy feely guy, surprised he didn't get more such complaints from school when he was still learning the ropes.

Ha! At DS6's school, they have a more enlightened solution for that one--they tell them, "next time, you'll remember how cold it was without your coat!" Recess isn't long enough these days to freeze anyone, I guess.

Snort! This thread reminded me of something I hadn't thought about in a long, long time.

When I was in 8th grade, we were all in English class. Our teacher (not the most kid-friendly teacher I've ever met) gave us an assignment and a noise outside obscured her voice. My friend Mark couldn't hear her and asked me what we had to do. The teacher heard us and assumed we'd been goofing around. We tried to explain, but she wasn't interested.

She told us we had to write a 200 word essay on why you shouldn't talk in class. We wrote:

"Talking in class is a very, very, very...(insert 191 verys) bad thing to do."

We turned in the essays together and she never said a word. Score one for the kids.

Val

I remember having to write "I will NOT chew gum in science class because it is rude and annoying Mr. Goodman." First it was 50x but since I neglected to toss the gum and was happily chewing while writing and not having to listen to him drone on in class, he upped it to 1000x!

My father came to school the next day to let the teacher know what he thought of the assignment and I never had to finish the assignment or ever do another one!

Funny note: my dd7 has an OT recommendation FOR chewing gum in class!

What is it about 8th grade, anyway? That just reminded me about the time that a classmate and I got called out to talk to the principal because the teacher said we were cheating. Because we had the same answers. The right ones. LMAO! Ok, so one of us is supposed to get something wrong just so we don't turn in identical papers? He was an idiot.

Of course, I had a high school English teacher who almost failed me on "progress" because I didn't have any for the whole year. Hello, I started with a max score at the beginning of the year, so where am I supposed to go? The lesson my mother said I should have learned was to start at the beginning of the year with just a few correct answers, and gradually work my way up through the year so I could show progress.