The Silent Treatment: A Day in the Life of a Student in ‘No Excuses’ Land

[AlexSatan]

123. If you had bothered reading the article

Information did go both ways during actual class time. The call-response happened as the kids were entering and getting ready for school. As in the campaign, it was for motivational purposes. As in the campaign, it was not meant for information exchange. If you know anything about communications, if you already know what the result is, no information is being exchanged.

So your strawman of education communication only going one way is a sad, droopy strawman. But yes, the vast majority of information SHOULD go one way. Otherwise, you kind of missed the point of having a teacher.

As for having "fake" happy faces, you must not know much about human psychology. Just as people react and often change their behavior depending on the clothes they are wearing, the same is true about having to have a good attitude. When people ask you how you are doing, do you start spilling your woes? I hope not. On the other hand, if it is part of the expectations of your jobs to be upbeat, most people actually absorb some of the fakeness and it results in them being happier. And sometimes "at work" you have to fake it. Welcome to real life. In my job as a teacher, I didn't let my personal problems bleed into my performance at work. It would help the students zero (or negatively) if I was grumpy or depressed. The show had to go on.

As for the "gotchas" you think you found

1) They didn't say those responses were mandatory did they? Nope. And a non-response is still a response and would warrant further investigation into the cause.

2) You ignored the response about the President because you knew it went contrary to your position. So of course you didn't mention it in 119. BTW, the President was equally coercive in his persistence at getting a response. Watch the video and see it took a few times for the crowd to catch on and comply. And I didn't misinterpret 119, I simply applied it to a very similar situation to help you see that the call-response is meant to motivate. You ignoring it in 117 showed you were intentionally trying to make it go away.

I used the president example to show you that if you don't think the President doing call-response to his audience then you can't think teachers doing it for their audience is. unless you are illogical and inconsistent that is.