Signs of the Times

Tonight at dinner, we got into a discussion about discipline at school now versus discipline when Mommy & Daddy went to school. Here’s a little recap:

It all started when Evan was asking if Nick or I had ever had to “flip our strip” when we were in school.

 

 

*for those of you who don’t know, this is a pocket chart where each child’s name is on a pocket that contains 4 different colored strips-if the kids get in trouble, they have to flip to a different color. 

 

 

We told him that they didn’t have strips back when we were in school.

 

 

Nick went on to say that “way back when” the teacher could actually spank you.

 

 

 

I told him that when I was in school, if someone got in trouble the teacher would write your name on the board.  Then, if you kept being bad, you would get a checkmark by your name and if you got so many checkmarks you had to go to the principal’s office. 

The conversation continued for a while and at one point I mentioned that if you were really bad you had to go to ISAP. Nick said “What’s ISAP stand for? Is that like in-school suspension? We called it ISS.” 

Evan said “Like ISP?”

Nick said “ISP?”

Evan said “Yeah, Internet Service Provider.” (Duh!)

 

Lesson of the day: Apparently they learn more than how to play Oregon Trail in computer lab nowadays!!