Thursday, February 24, 2011
Today's Students...
I am not sure how many of you are teaching in high schools, but I have a concern. We are currently in the midst of snowcoming week. For those of you not familiar, snowcoming is essentially the winter version of Homecoming. Instead of crowning a Homecoming Queen, we "crown" Mr. Genesee. Throughout the week, there are many activities including door decorating, theme days, assemblies every afternoon, and a mock rock. The upsetting thing to me is that students are not interested in participating in ANYTHING. These are suppose to be fun days with lots of silliness. I am concerned that students are not willing to participate in these crazy activities. As I sit here in my classroom, I am covered in orange and black face paint wearing a Tigger costume for Disney day! I look around the room and there are ZERO students dressed for the day. I am curious if this is something that is occuring just in our school or if this is something that is happening across the board. Are students becoming "too cool" to participate in these activities? What is going on with these kids?
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I hear ya. I get more excited about spirit week than my students too. It is so bad at my school, that we do not offer all the fun activities that you have mentioned. They have the same boring dress up days every year. It's not fun at all and I do not know how to get them motivated and full of school spirit. It is very unfortunate. And to top it off, our assemblies are right after first hour instead of at the end of the day. There aren't any games involved and they are boring. I think part of our problem is the student council doesn't do a very good job planning. I'm not sure how to get them more involved in school spirit.
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