Comments on: I don’t wears rose-tinted glasses

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:58:22 +0000

What a lovely and refreshing post to read. Thank you for thinking to blog about this.

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Thanksgiving « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:43:21 +0000

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Mathematics in Context « Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:04:40 +0000

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By: samjshah

samjshah — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:32:02 +0000

Yeah, it’s part of the school culture that students get a lot of free time to be where they want to be.

I don’t know about legal-ness, but I was new last year and this allowance to let kids out of class (again, not often and when it does happen, not a lot of minutes early) was definitely a regular practice.

It’s funny that you say that, though, because I was thinking about our sign-out procedure, and the rationale for the way we implement it today, and I realized it’s really about safety (fire, bomb threat, etc.).

And since I posted about this — and hence have been thinking about this — I decided that I have to rethink if I want to do this anymore. Because what IF there is a fire, or an emergency? I need to know where my kids are.

By: Jackie Ballarini

Jackie Ballarini — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:40:19 +0000

Wow. How nice to have an atmosphere where students are trusted to do the right thing.

I guess you don’t have to worry about the whole “legally responsible for you” for the entire class period thing as the parents know about the policies?