Get Schooled

By Sly

August 24, 2005 02:33 PM | Link to this

Reading logs are a crutch, but a welcome one. Sure students can fake their entries, but they can also fake many other parts of their lives as students. The log reinforces the plan and will also confirm to the student their progress through the plan. There are always those who will cheat, but they’re only cheating themselves, and in doing so they’ll learn a valuable life lesson about personal responsibity.

By ally

August 25, 2005 11:24 AM | Link to this

True, it is a crutch but I know when I was in school and we had logs that even required parents to sign off that we had done something a parent would sign just to shut the teacher up. Granted, students are cheating themselves doing so, but they aren’t really learning a life lesson unless you count that it’s ok to fake a log for someone to get them off your back which is what some parents are doing.

By Robert

August 26, 2005 12:05 PM | Link to this

Shall there be writing logs? Bathroom logs? Eating logs? Breatheing logs? When will we teach students AND parents responsibility and ownership of their own actions? Why must we create more and more paperwork/papertrails?