HomeschoolrsRUs
02-24-2005, 11:07 PM
Jailhouse Middle School
Rebecca Hagelin
February 25, 2005
It felt more like a juvenile detention center during lockdown than lunchtime in my neighborhood public middle school. Teachers were strategically stationed throughout the cafeteria about 20 feet apart. One of the vice principals had taken her customary place at the microphone. Every few seconds the noisy room was punctuated with her constant commands: “You, in the green shirt, sit down.” “Students standing at the back table, find a seat quickly.” “Young man at the soda machine, move to a table.”
Parents who had attended this upper-class suburban institution 20 years ago touted it as “a wonderful school.” Other parents had told me how terrible it was. At the time my son was nearing graduation from fifth grade, so I decided to find out for myself what our middle school was really like.
The rest of this article here: Rebecca Hagelin: Jailhouse Middle School (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/rebeccahagelin/rh20050225.shtml)
Rebecca Hagelin
February 25, 2005
It felt more like a juvenile detention center during lockdown than lunchtime in my neighborhood public middle school. Teachers were strategically stationed throughout the cafeteria about 20 feet apart. One of the vice principals had taken her customary place at the microphone. Every few seconds the noisy room was punctuated with her constant commands: “You, in the green shirt, sit down.” “Students standing at the back table, find a seat quickly.” “Young man at the soda machine, move to a table.”
Parents who had attended this upper-class suburban institution 20 years ago touted it as “a wonderful school.” Other parents had told me how terrible it was. At the time my son was nearing graduation from fifth grade, so I decided to find out for myself what our middle school was really like.
The rest of this article here: Rebecca Hagelin: Jailhouse Middle School (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/rebeccahagelin/rh20050225.shtml)