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Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Can Banning Hand-Raising Promote A Calmer Classroom?

Another school in the U.K. is jumping on the 'banned'-wagon, eliminating a very basic classroom tradition: raising your hand.


Administrators at Burlington Junior School in Bridlington, East Yorkshire are modifying the way students ask a question, prohibiting their students from raising a hand and instead directing them to give a thumbs up.






3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Raising a middle finger might work.

Anonymous said...

Do I have to raise my hand to answer this question?

Anonymous said...

The teacher should raise her hand and slap the tar out of some of the welfare punks there!