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"Model of a Good Student"
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"Model of a Good Student"

Anyone else had those passed out in your classroom? In my English class (this was with a substitute), we were passed out these pamphlets which read like a manual on how to be a good student. It really read more to me like "How to become a Brainwashed Prisoner". Cuckoo (Oh, and we had to copy down our feelings and opinions on it)

I forgot exactly what it was called and some of the steps, but I'm wondering whether anyone else has ever had such pamphlets passed out at school.

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We had syllabuses we had to get our parents to sign. It was stuff about the rules in school and the classroom.

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RE: "Model of a Good Student"

We don't get pamphlets about that, but we certainly get told how we "should" act at our school assembly every Monday.

Heh. I love when I get the chance to write down my opinions on something that involves school. Especially because each of our teachers give us a form around the end of the year on how we think of them as a teacher. Goingcrazy
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RE: "Model of a Good Student"

(10-07-2013 01:59 AM)Hansgrohe Wrote:  Anyone else had those passed out in your classroom? In my English class (this was with a substitute), we were passed out these pamphlets which read like a manual on how to be a good student. It really read more to me like "How to become a Brainwashed Prisoner". Cuckoo (Oh, and we had to copy down our feelings and opinions on it)

I forgot exactly what it was called and some of the steps, but I'm wondering whether anyone else has ever had such pamphlets passed out at school.

Seems like the bullcrap my school would do. Oh wait, we have done that already. (Insert rage panel here)
10-11-2013 06:32 AM
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