Hand raising ban calmer classrooms
Hand raising ban calmer classrooms. School bans children from putting up their hands in class - and tells pupils to do a 'Fonz' thumbs up instead
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Parent: 'I thought it was a joke at first. It's daft. I can't see the logic in it'
* Headteacher: 'It is to stop the pupils waving arms about, which can be distracting. It has calmed the pupils down'
Generations of children have raised their hands in class to
answer a teacher’s
question.
But not, perhaps, for much longer if the example of one junior school is anything to go by.
Instead the 324 pupils, aged from seven to 11, at Burlington Junior School in Bridlington, East
Yorkshire, have been asked to use a thumbs-up sign, with their arms lowered.
The signal has, apparently, been adopted to promote a ‘calmer and inclusive’
atmosphere in the classroom.
