Comments on: School administrators need to focus on their hallways, not Facebook https://dfarq.homeip.net/school-administrators-need-to-focus-on-their-hallways-not-facebook/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=school-administrators-need-to-focus-on-their-hallways-not-facebook David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave Farquhar https://dfarq.homeip.net/school-administrators-need-to-focus-on-their-hallways-not-facebook/#comment-15325 Wed, 09 May 2012 00:12:36 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5439#comment-15325 Dan, that’s an incredible article. Thanks for sharing it.

I think a certain vice-principal desperately needs to read it. Unless he’s one of those people in the article who’s beyond change.

]]> By: DanB https://dfarq.homeip.net/school-administrators-need-to-focus-on-their-hallways-not-facebook/#comment-15285 Tue, 08 May 2012 16:06:15 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5439#comment-15285 Tangential, and a longish read, but pertinent: http://acestoohigh.com/2012/04/23/lincoln-high-school-in-walla-walla-wa-tries-new-approach-to-school-discipline-expulsions-drop-85/

]]> By: John https://dfarq.homeip.net/school-administrators-need-to-focus-on-their-hallways-not-facebook/#comment-15269 Tue, 08 May 2012 14:39:30 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5439#comment-15269 You have some good points. I think that is one thing that has been forgotten by teachers. Who now are more focused on grades. Not on showing someone how to be a man or woman. My father was sick pretty much my hole life growing up. Which didn’t help me as I got around 5th grade which is when the other kids started picking on me and I had a teacher that didn’t care. I would get in trouble not do homework and instead of helping which caused me to be held back a year. That year didn’t help I acted out more so I wouldn’t get picked on. She got to a point where when I got the guts to try and stand up and take on a challenge at a school play when one of the other kids got sick. I told her I could do the part she looked at me and told me to my face that I would just mess it up. After sixth grade my parents pulled me out of that school and put me into a new school I did much better at the new school and had vary nice teachers that took the time to help me. Then came high school. I was forced back with the same people who had picked on me and used me to pull the pranks that I had did at the old school to keep from getting picked on. Once more a teacher had the chance to help me with my self esteem. Miss Collens was my English teacher and I was not a good speller or good a writing because I didn’t give a shit. When we did get to something that I did give a shit about which was a fantasy writing. Which was the only books I read. I put a lot of work behind it and put all my effort into it. So the day comes to get the paper back and it doesn’t have a grade on it so I go to the teacher and ask why I don’t have a grade. Her answer to that is “This is to good to be your work you copied it out of some book I’m not going to give you a grade.” So I failed that class I didn’t give a shit any more. It wasn’t till I went off to school in Utah that I got some of the self confidence that I needed I was a top student was a vice president for my dorm. When I got back to St. Louis I joined the Sheriffs department and won the to academic award for my academy class. I’ve now been on the force for 14 years now I’m a certified instructor. I look back and always wonder what would have changed in my life if those teachers would have done things differently. So yes I think teachers need to do more then just look at facebook and grades. Now coming from what I have learned as a person in law enforcement. Students who are thinking or planing attack on a school will post things on facebook. That if noticed can help prevent them from happening.

]]> By: Ken https://dfarq.homeip.net/school-administrators-need-to-focus-on-their-hallways-not-facebook/#comment-15252 Tue, 08 May 2012 12:37:03 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5439#comment-15252 Dude, I had an almost identical experience with late-in-life advice from my grandpa that could have completely changed the trajectory of my grade school and high school careers if I’d heard it when I needed it instead of twenty years too late! We’re simpatico, brother.

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