The owners don’t and wont give a crap. Its the driver who will whinge.
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Gotya, I suppose he enjoys being stuck with nothing to do.
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Hiway truckers and polishing is a passion.
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Careful pointing that thing at anything military! They may think it’s an RPG! 
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Fortunately there’s no Israeli airforce nearby to do a localized genocide so I’ve got that going for me!
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Despite being a “professor” I’m not big into the research side of things but we had a local conference so….DCS meets English teaching 
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From a trip to New York last week. This sight seemed worthy of a photo. There is something surreal about a building so tall that it disappears into the cloud layer. A common sight for city folk I guess…
The view from my hotel room across the river in New Jersey (Weehawken).
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Oh man…so the students get their participation “LSO” grades posted for everyone else to see?
I know where’d I’d be…
Actually…that isn’t totally true. I’d be at the minimum passing threshold probably.
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That is kind of brutal?
I did a six month ‘course’ where everyone’s grades were posted to the notice board in the rec room at the end of the day.
It can really mess with your head.
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My first year in school, age 7, I went to a school that would be closed after our first year. All the teachers left for other schools as soon as the news of this spread.
So we got substitute teachers… One of them thought it would be a really great idea to have a pupil ladder on the wall in the classroom, with the class ranged from bottom to top according to how far through the books they had made it… Basically, the top half of that ladder was all girls and the lower half, boys. 
I couldn’t be bothered, and ended up last.
The real problem was that the school didn’t close after the first year. It took them 3 years to close that school. 3 years with substitute teachers.
But at higher levels of education it’s not uncommon to post exam results, for all to see. At least it used to be. Now, with everything digital it’s probably otherwise?
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Wow. Seven years old!
For context. At least in my case it was intentional - it was a ‘residential’ course, we couldn’t go anywhere on our off duty time, never knew what the next day would bring (might be two hours, might be 18, might be nothing for three days)… all part of the mind games curriculum.
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Yeah… I actually told my mother, after the first year of school was finished, that I didn’t have to go to school anymore as they didn’t teach us anything. Mum also said that I told her that all I did was looking out the window. Who knew that experience would pay off! 
In my fourth year I came to a new class at another school, with a real teacher. She turned me around completely and set me off on the right track.
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I’d be curious to read more about the context for this too.
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Context is pretty simple really. Students not participating in class, screwing around too much on their phone, using Japanese instead of English in an English class, etc.
Greenie board in the Navy facilitates “healthy competition” to pursue improvement and foster teamwork (“Hey your traps haven’t been great lately want to go on a hop with me tomorrow?”).
“Healthy competition” has worked in the classroom for other things (homework, gamefication, etc.)
2+2=4
If a student participates well they get a 4-5 for that day. If they’re slacking off, sleeping, on their phone the whole time they get a 0-2. 2.5~3 for the mid-range stuff. It’s a measure of their participation in class, not their final course grade. They already know who’s taking the ■■■■ just by looking around the classroom anyway, so this adds a layer of accountability, too.
For students who didn’t give a ■■■■ to begin with it was kinda meh. For students who did give a ■■■■ it worked exactly the way it works in the Navy: They got better, and the top students encouraged the lower students to do better.
The pie charts on the right are student opinions on it. Majority positive. The few negative comments were wanting more detailed feedback than just a number, ironically enough.
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In our case it was primarily used to see how students reacted to an external stressor and was a totally arbitrary ranking of students because no explanation was ever given as to how the ranking was derived.
For the assessed work, it only showed a pass/fail (not a graded score and we were never told exactly how well we had done on a test, only pass or fail). Thing is that even if there hadn’t been any formal assessment for that day, students were still shuffled around!
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Made me remember this comment…
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Can you see that ship from the Mexican Navy that crashed into the bridge?
No, I believe that happened on the Brooklyn side of the city, and I was on the left coast by the time the accident happened. Tragic that two young lives were lost like that. 
Tragic indeed.
Ooof, sounds like you guys were used as some kind of mean psychology experiment.
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