You are darn right! This signal is what I use to have my dog sit. Totally unfit for use on a human.

lol

I read about this in the book Savage Inequalities. It sounds like it's gotten worse since then.

We should try to fix the schools, but this is not surprising from a gov't-sponsored service. Sometimes they do a good job, and other times you get this.

Kneeling is a common practice, or the hand gesture/response thing? I don't see them as being the same thing whatsoever. Doing something (code word/hand signal) to get a class of 30's attention is one thing....kneeling to the Principal is demeaning. Either way... I have a hand gesture for the Principal.

I have read this is an educational philosophy-- the faculty makes some kind of hand gesture, and the students are supposed to respond with some postural response.

I completely condemn the idea, but my understanding is this might be a common practice, not an anomaly of one overbearing principal.

I'm guessing some parents know about it, but they won't get their tax money back if the go to a different provider. So they'll holder their nose, put up with it, and try to have a positive influence at home.

Their other option is to protest through a political process. They may not have the initiative or they make not think they would get results before their kid finishes the school.

The worst case is parents who say, "Well. This is preparing them for a job where they have to sit and mindlessly do what they're told." They don't want to face that those jobs average around $1/hr in the global labor market.

hahaha

lol

No S#1t! : LOL

Good song. I remember it like yesterday.
I never had any kids, but if my kid came home and told me of this activity. That principle would be on his knees before I left his office. I have never started any physical altercation, but boy, would I give him reason to swing at me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGNR5yCIO...
P.S. I have never started any fights, but I have finished a few... I'm a gettin' a bit long in the tooth for that kind of crap nowadays.... better pipe down... :)

um, figuratively speaking.

I am livid that no parents were initially around to see this crap! when my kids were in elementary I was peeing all over that school in the name of "volunteerism" to know what was going on. That principal better be kneeling to the parents when that meeting happens-wait-maybe schools no longer have PTAs? gasp!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzSQgIsIJ...

Tin pot dictator. Presidential wannabe...

Kneel before Zod.

Teaching the kids to accept being controlled and not ask questions at an early age. Why didn't any of these kids say something to their parents?

All in the name of "safety". Outrageous!!