Title : "Now children at one secondary school have been told they must always smile, never look out of the window while in class and learn a series of whistle commands from teachers....""
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"Now children at one secondary school have been told they must always smile, never look out of the window while in class and learn a series of whistle commands from teachers....""
"Students have to maintain eye contact with the teacher whenever they are talking and cannot pick up a pen or ruler until a teacher gives them the OK. If a teacher says hello they should make sure their reply is 'upbeat.' Turning around 'even if you hear a noise' is forbidden, they must enter the classroom in single file, 'never forget to say Sir or Miss' and always sit up straight in class.... The rules appear to be inspired by the 'slant' technique, pioneered in schools in the US a decade ago, which has become popular in the UK in recent years. The acronym spells out the expectation that children sit up, listen, ask and answer questions, nod and track the teacher with their eyes...."
From "Smiles compulsory at super-strict John Ferneley College" (London Times). The college is in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The students are 11 to 16 years old.
The idea is said to be to train students in the kind of behavior "expected in middle-class families" so that they can do well "in job and university interviews." There's no punishment for not smiling, and the whistling is about "getting children to line up or ending break and lunch times."
I'd never heard of the "slant" technique, but I like it! Here's a video I found:
I can see how this could be condemned as systemic racism, because it adopts "middle class" behavior as the norm.
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