So, the interim has ended, and grades will be sent home Thursday. This means roughly five weeks have passed since the "Honor Level" system was introduced. For those of you keeping score at home, the Honor Level information sheet passed out to teachers stated that ". . .every 2 to 3 weeks, Pioneer High School staff will reward or treat the behavior honor level one and two students to school-wide fun activities."
This means we should have had at least one "school-wide fun activity" and possibly two. How many have we had? Maybe I've missed them, but I've counted zero. Does this mean we don't have to obey the blue slips until we get our fun days?
I've heard of at least one teacher (not revealing any names, as I don't want to cause a teacher to get into trouble or anything) refusing to give out blue slips because they don't make sense.
Why do I bring this up? Today, in second hour, I received my first blue slip. I won't say what it was, but I will say this: I knew I was being falsely accused, punished for a crime I didn't commit. However, I couldn't see the teacher who apparently gave me the slip until fourth hour. So I decided to show up to the Little Theater for lunch, as had been requested of me; partially out of respect for the rules, stupid as they are, and partially out of curiosity.
What I saw was not what I expected. I expected to not be able to talk, or to do homework. Instead, once I got inside, I saw people sitting together, yelling, talking on cell phones. Of course, I was the only one doing homework, but I was also listening. I heard stories from other individuals telling their friends about how they had gotten blue slips every day and never come. These students hadn't been consequenced for this, either. Detention's purpose? It's basically a physical manifestation of your honor level punishment, to make sure you know you're being punished. Detention is there for the sole purpose of telling us we're no longer welcome at Beach Bash. . .
For the record, there were about 40 or 50 people in the theater; it seats about 250. If you get detention, and you're a normally upstanding member of society, and you choose to go, just tell your friends to come with you. It's just like eating in a classroom.
12.11.2007
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