Re: MCLB "Anniversary?" Millions of children left

["Art Burke" <aburke@vansd.org>]

The "jobs" are things that are done around the school every day.  What
makes them special is the ownership and pride that the child gets from
having the job - some of that comes from the ritual the principal puts
into place for getting it - the application, the references, the
waiting, and so on; some of it comes from the fact that everybody
respects the work.  There is no failure and a kid is never denied the
chance to work his or her job - if homework is not done, or the kid is
late, he or she still gets to do his job.  I don't think that large gobs
of time are involved.

Like I said, some dynamite principal.

Art

>>> ecrump@interversity.org 01/08/03 04:09PM >>>
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Art Burke wrote:
> Principal was telling me about the "Job Corps" she started in her
> elementary school.

This sounds interesting. What kind of jobs were they? Do they have some

kind of training program for doing the jobs (I don't mean, necessarily,

some kind of programmatic training; could be just one kid who knows a
job 
helping the next kid learn how to do it). How much of the school day do

the work of the jobs take up? What kind of recognition do kids get?

Maybe these are questions you can't answer. I realize you only heard
about 
this from the person who initiated it. Just curious is all.

--Eric Crump

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