Posted on 04/06/2011 6:02:05 PM PDT by neal1960
A new Facebook page posts dozens of pictures of students allegedly asleep at Gaffney High School, and board members are upset.
The page, titled 'Sleeping Students of GHS', was put up on March 31, and it's very similar to one taken down a few days earlier.
The original page was created by a Gaffney High senior, according to the student's father, Stan Lewis.
Lewis said his son and another student created the page as a way to bring awareness to what his son believes is a problem with so many students sleeping during class.
When the page grew in popularity, Lewis said the school's assistant principal called his son into the office and asked him to take it down.
"[The assistant principal] said 'if you take it down, I won't discipline you for putting it up.'"
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Maybe we need to throw more money into public schools to buy energy drinks to keep students awake.
Most high schools start at an ungodly early time and end even earlier in the afternoon. Why don’t they shift the start time to later in the day?
On what grounds? Sounds like the VP should be charged with making threats. Indemnified totalitarian thug, thy name is public school educator.
If kids were allowed to have cell phones on in school, they would be texting all day, not that they don’t already, but at least it would be more difficult to do, and there would be consequences if they got caught.
Probably bored to sleep from lib indoctrination.
They have to start at a time when the parents can get them out the door. You couldn’t expect them to get themselves out of bed and off too school can you?
“Most high schools start at an ungodly early time and end even earlier in the afternoon. Why don’t they shift the start time to later in the day?”
Sorta like my job. I would LOVE bankers hours.
Cheating? Really? In this plugged in world I don’t think much is cheating. My thoughts are if you can get the answer then use it.
When I went to school you had to crack a book and understand how to alphabetize. Now you just have to remotely know a key word and you can get the answer, heck you don’t even have to know how to spell it.
Google is far superior to Dewey. LOL
don't agree at all -
the problem is that kids these days stay up to all hours of the night. The same problem exists with companies which hire teens and young adults. They report to work tired.
"Tests by Professor Russell Foster, chairman of circadian neuroscience at Brasenose College, Oxford, suggest that students perform better in the afternoon, because their body clock is programmed about two hours later, possibly for hormonal reasons."
"[The assistant principal] said 'if you take it down, I won't discipline you for putting it up.'"
"Please, discipline me. Write me a strongly worded letter; it'll go on FB. Give me detention; I'll report daily on it, and what I see there, on FB. Please, throw me in that briar patch."
I've been around many, many teens and young adults in my four score and more years and there is no doubt that it is lack of good sleeping habits which are affecting subject classes, or reporting to work for the morning shift. My degrees are not from jolly old Oxford, just a oldtime regional college, but this is one subject I know what I'm talking about.
You’re right. High school shouldn’t start before 3 or 4 PM and run until 11 PM. Then the kids can go out and party til 5 AM and sack in until noon or so.
I convinced my boss that’s how we should run the company and we instituted it immediately. We’ve seen huge productivity gains and revenues are at an all-time high. Customer support is a bit of a problem because they don’t roll into until 5 PM or so, about the time most customers are going home. But we always get to their emails in a few days, no matter what. More companies should adopt this plan.
As a student at Gaffney High School in South Carolina I am friends with the creator of this page. First thing, this page was created to show students how stupid they look asleep in class. Not just to make fun of them. It makes them not want to fall asleep. I have overheard students saying “Mrs. (fill in the blank) may I go to the water fountain so i don’t fall asleep and end up looking stupid on that page?” Sure, it’s fun. I’ve put one or two pictures up. The Cherokee County School District is being very involved in this matter but it is showing how they do not have their priorities in order. We have some (not all) kids having sex in bathrooms, smoking marijuana cigarettes between classes, and dropping out every day, but no thats not what the district is worried about. All they seem worried about is a few pictures on a facebook page. In our class handbooks it states that students caught using electronic devices will have them taken. but students caught with sexual harassment, sex in general, drugs, or drug paraphernalia results in expulsion. So you tell me. Which is more or a problem to society?
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Well stated! Thanks for your input.
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