I can understand the urge to go extreme. I think a public beheading of a child the first couple of days is an effective way of modifying behavior, because most kids assume those first actions have no consequences so they press boundaries.
I think failing a kid for using IDK on an answer where they were told to be clever is more extreme than I'd go personally. In situations like that I have just opted not to grade the paper and said that the child would have a zero until things were done correctly. It's the same short term result with the net long term possibility of fixing it and redemption in general.
I do have a zero tolerance policy for copying off of someone's papers and I will publicly humiliate both copier and copy-ee in the process of giving them a zero. But I'm pretty upfront about it.
I just got a letter stating my insurance company will cover breast reduction surgery. Wow. I'm impressed and scared.
Considering that it can prevent other medical problems this is a good thing. Not that insurance companies see the big picture so clearly very often.
Then again, I'm a bad example, because I'm returning their sonnets they wrote today while wearing a tshirt that says, "Shakespeare hates your emo poems."
So now this girl is being punished for the actions of students in previous years' classes. How is that okay?
As a whole, it's not. In some individual cases, it is sometimes the only way to get a point across.
And for the record, it's not her method of teaching. It's a tool that can be used as reinforcement with a class to illustrate expectations. It's the same thing as reading a wonderfully written paper out loud to the class to illustrate good writing.
I just got a letter stating my insurance company will cover breast reduction surgery. Wow.
Wow indeed! And yay for you!
a tshirt that says, "Shakespeare hates your emo poems."
Ooooooooh, where can I get one?
Considering that it can prevent other medical problems this is a good thing. Not that insurance companies see the big picture so clearly very often.
Ayup. With my history of back issues, not to mention burgeoning shoulder & neck problems, they're looking at an effective means of cost control down the line.
Now I have to figure out a way to break it to my boobies.
a tshirt that says, "Shakespeare hates your emo poems."
Ooooooooh, where can I get one?
I want one, too to wear to my poetry class!!
Thanks for the link!!
As a whole, it's not. In some individual cases, it is sometimes the only way to get a point across.
There's a tension with saying that students should know better already -- because we would never have used acronyms -- and only the most OTT correction will get students to know better.
I don't see why the student had to have been failed, when she was going to make a huge demonstration to prove her point anyway.
