Re: study of red****rting (late entrance to kndergarten)

Chookie <ehrebeniuk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>In article <23be84dlv6nj4np7h3q04gp04mp21g88nj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Rosalie B. <gmbeasley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> What is a school captain?  What is a dux?  Kind of like a
>> vice-captain?
>
>Australian primary and high schools have elections for a representative
body.  
>When I was at school you elected prefects and boy and girl captains and 
>vice-captains.  Prefects, traditionally, were responsible for minor
discipline 
>-- silence on stairs, order in the canteen, that sort of thing -- and the

>captains (or vice-captains, if the captains were unavailable) --
represented 
>the school students at public events.  Speeches at prize-giving
ceremonies, 
>give flowers to retiring teachers, conducting the Anzac Day ceremony,
etc.  
>The s****ts captains represented the high school at formal s****ts events
(they 
>were usually athletic people), but as I was so uns****ty I have no idea
what 
>this involved.

We don't have anything like prefects or captains.  AFAIK, no students
are given say over other students other than perhaps crossing guards,
and that's really outside school and no privileges that I know or.
Hall monitors are teachers.  

If anyone gives anything to teachers, the room moms or maybe the PTA
or other teachers do it.  My mom once organized a shower for my 2-3
grade teacher when she got married, but that's the only time I
remember anything like that.  Any time there were prize givings, it
would be done by the principal.  

There are kids who get to do the AV stuff and also there are usually
some who do the morning announcements, which now-a-days might be
televised.
>
>These days, students elect a Student Representative Council which can
make 
>suggestions to the school administration on improvements to 
>facilities/activities, runs school functions, etc.  At my son's primary
school 
>the school captains are joint presidents of this body.  At any rate, they
are 
>immortalised in gold letters on a wooden board, usually some years after
they 
>have departed!  Elections are considered im****tant for development of an 
>understanding of our system of government (as I've mentioned, we have 
>compulsory voting).
>
We do have elections for Student reps, and sometimes there is a
student member that attends the School Board meetings, but that's
outside of school.

>A dux is a student who gains the highest overall result in the final year
of 
>school, primary or high.  We normally referred to the one who came second
as 
>the Runner-Up, and that name often went up on the board as well.
>
We call them valedictorian and salutatorian and their 'reward' is that
they have to give a speech at graduation.

>I was a prefect in high school and our privilege was a small room of our
own, 
>with an electric jug and probably a toaster.  It was nice on wet days,
but not 
>all our friends were prefects, so I don't think I spent a lot of time in
there 
>really.
>
>I did have the privilege that having a good character brings with it --
if I 
>went to the toilet or library, I was never stopped and challenged, just 
>greeted.  At that stage, we didn't have formal p*****, just verbal
teacher 
>permission.  At DS1's primary school, the children never go anywhere
alone, 
>but only in pairs, so a classmate always accompanies a child to the
office, 
>sick-bay or toilet.  I don't know if the older children go anywhere alone

>during class time (DS1 is 7 and in Year 2), but I think not.

Teachers walk the students to lunch etc.  Teachers and sometimes paid
or unpaid people monitor the playground.  Of course there isn't any
outside recess once you get past 5th grade unless the teachers put it
into the schedule for their group.  The schools at that level have no
playgrounds, so the recess is in the parking lot.

When I was teaching, we gave the students hall p***** for the
bathroom.  They could only go one at a time (this was in middle or
high school).  

> "Donna Metler" <dmmetler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Honor roll is students who have top grades in all subjects. In some
schools, 
>> it's divided into two categories, those who have the absolute top grade
in 
>> every class, and those who have mostly the top grade, with maybe 1
class 
>> where they're one rank lower. Students also must have good conduct and 
>> regular attendance.
>
>I see -- that would be recognised here with the annual (or twice-yearly)
merit 
>awards for best/achievement/most improved in Subjectname.  THere is also 
>usually an overall academic excellence award and a good/most improved
conduct 
>award.

This isn't the one who gets the HIGHEST achievement in maths (sic) or
some one subject, this is EVERYONE who gets top grades in all their
subjects including things like band and PE.  We don't give a special
award for improved conduct or improved academics either, although
conduct is noted in the elementary levels or at least it was when my
kids were in school.  

When we got to college, the people who had the requisite grades were
on the Dean's List (or in the case of the military academies, the
Superintendent's List).