Thug-lyfe Meowcat Ellen Feng Akuma Osito Qiu Vincent Chou “We didn’t say ‘no you can’t do that’ we just turned a blind eye,” says Swanson School Principal Bruce McLachlan, “Over a period of time we turned a blind eye to everything because actually nothing that the kids were doing was a problem”. Today there are no rules for students during play breaks in the schoolyard. Oh, except for one “Kids aren’t allowed to kill anyone”. “The real problem is mollycoddling […] The birth of helicopter parenting, the need to wrap our kids up in cotton wool and not give them an opportunity to hurt themselves. When you do that, for the very best of reasons, you’re actually taking away a lot of learning opportunities for kids,” says McLachlan. So, what happens when kids play on their own terms? Over the last three years concentration and confidence is up in the classroom, incidents of bullying are way down at Swanson School and – somewhat surprisingly – with children exercising self-control, injuries are far fewer.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:35:15 +0000
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