This story made me chuckle. The poor guy- knowing that his music is being used to make terrorists talk!
Our school has a successful after school detention policy. It is organised and supervised by staff, on a daily basis, and is run on a rota system. The naughty kids sit silently in rows and have to copy out the school rules as many times as they can in an hour. Maybe we could help to further deter bad behaviour by pumping out some David Gray during these detentions. Or anything by those stupid Spice Girls.
Does anybody have other suggestions of torture music?
Saturday, 5 July 2008
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Crazy Frog -- ding ding!
Cha cha slide
Aqua - Barbie Girl!
These are my three personal torture tracks.
You might also consider anything by Steps and my heart will go on (Celine Dion - theme from Titanic).
No, you see you'd have to choose something the kids will hate, not that you hate, the sort of music that their Dad would get up and dance to at a family do.
Like Abba, or Shirley Bassey, or even Steeleye Span!
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How about chamber music or the chicken dance, over and over again.
During my Student Teaching, I actually played polka music and songs by Dwight Yoakam when I hosted detention. Students want to be cool all the time, and when they're stuck in detention with "Grandma music" blaring, they don't feel quite so cool. I love it when other kids walk by my room, hear the embarrassing music, and peek in, giggling when they see their miserable friends in detention.
For kids today, detention has lost its sense of dread. All kids have to do is come in, be quiet (or sleep) for 30 minutes, and then they're free again. There has been no modification to the behavior. Detention has been comfortable.
I like to issue students who enter detention a behavior management plan. The plan asks students to state what they did wrong, what other choices they had, and what they would do next time in the same situation. Then we conference about it, and they take the plan home for their parents to sign and return.
Conferencing with me and being associated with embarrassing music seems to make my kiddos not want to see me for detentions too much. I have actually overheard students tell their friends, "Trust me, you really don't want to have detention with Mrs. Strangenewteacher." That always gives me the warm fuzzies.
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