>>>(and I believe in many other countries), students do participate in the regular cleaning of school....
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>>>>But all students, not just the poor ones. That's very different.
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>>>But like I pointed out a minute ago, that opens up some possible issues. I think anything beyond cleaning up their direct obvious messes and anything beyond a "leave the place the way it looked when you started playing" is not necessarily a good idea.
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>>Again, I agree with you. Seems to me that when I was a kid, and when my kids were kids <g>, many teachers had a list of classroom jobs that rotated among the students. The one I remember is cleaning the blackboard, maybe messenger (who took the attendance sheet to the office), etc. Good way to hand out some responsibility. ISTR that we mostly looked forward to having one of those jobs.
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cleaning the blackboard. Today this job is pressing the Reset switch. :-)
Speaking of blackboard... always did wonder how dotted lines were done by some folks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqC7QpNrprg