Time Out Cards

[CB Saint]

Perhaps someone in education can enlighten me...

 

I was told yeasterday that kids in (senior) school are given time out cards. The idea being that if they get too angry or frustrated they can "play" the card and the teacher has to let them step out of the class room for ten minutes. Is this realy true? Are we really pandering this much to the kids these days?

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

You couldn't make it up...

PC gone mad...

Kids these days...

What's wrong with a slap round the ear...never did me no harm...

etc etc etc

[Barry the Badger]

I work in a school. Never heard of it myself.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

Perhaps someone in education can enlighten me...

 

I was told yeasterday that kids in (senior) school are given time out cards. The idea being that if they get too angry or frustrated they can "play" the card and the teacher has to let them step out of the class room for ten minutes. Is this realy true? Are we really pandering this much to the kids these days?

 

We use them in my school. I teach two with these cards, both in Yr.8. To be honest, one of them, in my opinion, doesn't really need one and uses it as an excuse to just duck out of lessons. One however I feel does need one of these cards, he has serious emotional/behavioural problems and the Learning Development dept. at school is trying everything it can to try and keep him in mainstream school: He is a very intelligent lad, but cannot stop himself from smacking someone in the face if they say something about him that he doesn't like. For example, I had to try and break up a fight in my class the other day as another pupil said something about his mum on the sly; He picked up his chair and launched it at him before clocking him in the mouth.

 

It is different these days CB since new government guidelines came in, in your day and in perhaps mine, this pupil would not have been in mainsteam school so it SEEMS that we're pandering, but really we're just employing tactics that have been used for years just in 'special' schools where yourself wouldn't have seem them.

[CB Saint]

We use them in my school. I teach two with these cards, both in Yr.8. To be honest, one of them, in my opinion, doesn't really need one and uses it as an excuse to just duck out of lessons. One however I feel does need one of these cards, he has serious emotional/behavioural problems and the Learning Development dept. at school is trying everything it can to try and keep him in mainstream school: He is a very intelligent lad, but cannot stop himself from smacking someone in the face if they say something about him that he doesn't like. For example, I had to try and break up a fight in my class the other day as another pupil said something about his mum on the sly; He picked up his chair and launched it at him before clocking him in the mouth.

 

It is different these days CB since new government guidelines came in, in your day and in perhaps mine, this pupil would not have been in mainsteam school so it SEEMS that we're pandering, but really we're just employing tactics that have been used for years just in 'special' schools where yourself wouldn't have seem them.

 

Fair points - but does it really work. I suppose the debate is whether children with serious issues like the kid in the second example should be taught in a mainstream environment. I guess there is no easy answer to this as he deserves the same chances in life as everyone else, but at the same time it should not be to the detriment of the other pupils or teaching staff.

[RedAndWhite91]

We never had time out cards when I was at school (2002-07), I just always got sent out the room by the teacher anyway. No one was allowed to leave the room off their own choice, unless you used the old "Miss, can I go to the toilet please, I'm bursting, please miss!" which allowed you to wander around the building for a few minutes and take a time out from the dull lesson you were in. I miss school.

[Kadeem Hardison]

Boj should start issuing time out cards on the main board for the special people with emotional issues.

[Saint_clark]

Why can't teachers just keep track of which kids might need to leave the room in certain situations, I.E do their jobs?

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

Why can't teachers just keep track of which kids might need to leave the room in certain situations, I.E do their jobs?

 

We do you mong!!

[sotonjoe]

Next week ... a thread about how doctors aren't doing their jobs properly, started by non-doctor know-it-alls.

[Thedelldays]

Next week ... a thread about how doctors aren't doing their jobs properly, started by non-doctor know-it-alls.

then people who have never served on a UK submarine will be telling others how policy change will not be a problem..

 

nutters

[Saint_clark]

We do you mong!!

 

Then why do you need time out cards to identify the kids who are problematic?

[DS]

then people who have never served on a UK submarine will be telling others how policy change will not be a problem..

 

nutters

 

They shoud put windows in to save money on expensive sonar imo.

[Pancake]

Why can't teachers just keep track of which kids might need to leave the room in certain situations, I.E do their jobs?

 

Make a change from users telling Admins how to run a messageboard...

[INFLUENCED.COM]

One however I feel does need one of these cards, he has serious emotional/behavioural problems

He is a very intelligent lad, but cannot stop himself from smacking someone in the face if they say something about him that he doesn't like. For example, I had to try and break up a fight in my class the other day as another pupil said something about his mum on the sly; He picked up his chair and launched it at him before clocking him in the mouth.

 

 

Based on the example, If this lad falls into this category then so must have I and 60-70% of the pupils at my school and none of us received special attention, only in recent years have I been able to stop myself from smacking someone if they say something about me but still would be unable to stop myself should they say something about my Mum.

When at school and it happened I was aware it was punishable by detention, suspension or expulsion, now if it happened I am aware I could be subject to arrest, a warning, fine or incarceration because it is wrong and I know the difference between right and wrong as I assume does this very intelligent lad.

If I were allowed a time out every time I got p!ssed off at school I would of only been there for break, dinner & games lessons, imo it is simply excusing bad behaviour and sets a bad example for other kids, much the same as when naughty kids are 'rewarded' if they do not play up in class yet those who always behave are not.