When I walked in to class today, one of my students who normally wears jeans according to dress code, had his pants sagging. I responded with surprise and scolded him in French, which students actually think is amusing. I exclaimed: <<Oh non! Toi aussi? Il faut voter? >>. This very observant student had anticipated my reaction, actually planned on it. Laughing, he said "I know Miss. I knew that is what you would say." as he pulled his pants back up. Now, how does this relate to democracy? Well....
All I can say is that last week, there was a student who was out of dress code. For some reason, this student seems to like wearing jeans at his knees and showing off shorts. Instead of being bugged, I thought of a different approach. I tried a “fashion show”. For my class, it worked like this. The said student came up to “show off” the outfit and the class got to vote on it. In the case of sagging jeans, the vote was between wearing shorts and wearing jeans. It was interesting to see how excited kids got about having a say in something, about having their voice heard. My class voted shorts which was no surprise. They were quite adamant about it, as a matter of fact. The said student wasn't quite sure to do with the information from the class. He did, however, walk back to his chair and casually make sure his shorts were no longer showing.
Now, hopefully, this student will get that when I say “shorts or jeans” it could be turned over to the entire class. We are a community, after all.
All I can say is that last week, there was a student who was out of dress code. For some reason, this student seems to like wearing jeans at his knees and showing off shorts. Instead of being bugged, I thought of a different approach. I tried a “fashion show”. For my class, it worked like this. The said student came up to “show off” the outfit and the class got to vote on it. In the case of sagging jeans, the vote was between wearing shorts and wearing jeans. It was interesting to see how excited kids got about having a say in something, about having their voice heard. My class voted shorts which was no surprise. They were quite adamant about it, as a matter of fact. The said student wasn't quite sure to do with the information from the class. He did, however, walk back to his chair and casually make sure his shorts were no longer showing.
Now, hopefully, this student will get that when I say “shorts or jeans” it could be turned over to the entire class. We are a community, after all.
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