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by lispsil
4513 days ago
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Yep. There was a punching 'wall' I never used full of holes to let out frustration. The school itself had no rules except for the laws of Canada obviously so threats and bribing are illegal anywhere but I never saw anything like that, in my old school I saw threats against teachers. Selling drugs, again illegal in Canada so no however there were kids openly smoking weed in the field and nobody did anything about it. There were no tests to cheat on. Their motto was 'we never give up you' and it wasn't utopian at all, you had to work to graduate which was a gov test taken elsewhere where cheating was monitored. The motivation to graduate for some was to end parole restrictions about going out at night, others the motivation was to not become a failure |
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No rules but the laws of Canada? Well that is very close to the same thing as most schools then right? The only difference was a few rules such as you could be late to class or truant and you could leave campus whenever you wanted to. Funny that one of the laws of Canada prohibits redboxing - one of the very same "rules" that you were kicked out of school to begin with...
So you are telling me that 3 rule changes, only having one test in all of school, people telling everyone that they should study or they will fail at life (something I probably have heard from every teacher I have ever had) and a motto of "we will never give up on you" changed things that much?
What was the name of this miraculous institution???
One could change just one rule in any school in the world and it would make the kind of improvement that you describe. Optional attendance. Of course 1/3 of the school won't show up, but that is the "bad kids" anyway.