{"id":310,"date":"2015-11-19T15:10:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T20:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acutabove.wpengine.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2015-12-03T15:31:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:31:19","slug":"is-pbis-really-a-positive-addition-at-brownell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Is PBIS really a positive addition at Brownell?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Schwartz & Zoe Graves<\/strong>
\nThe Brownell Beat
\nBrownell MS
\n1st Place
\nMS Division, News Writing
\nPro\/Con Editorial Columns<\/p>\n

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PBIS is a great organizational tool<\/p>\n

Many students have different feelings about\u00a0the new system at Brownell Middle School PBIS. My\u00a0opinion about this new program is that it can help\u00a0many students in a positive way. The reason that this\u00a0program was created was to help students very much.<\/p>\n

Students may not like it but it will help them foreverbecause being organized is a key piece in life. PBIS\u00a0can really help students.\u00a0PBIS has many great things that it does to\u00a0help Brownell students. The best thing is\u00a0that this new program helps students be\u00a0ready, everyday, for every class at Brownell.\u00a0There are five things that are being prepared\u00a0for class, homework complete, being safe,\u00a0not being rude in class, not being tardy, and\u00a0not using cell phones when you are not supposed\u00a0to, all students must do these things\u00a0to be successful every day at Brownell.<\/p>\n

If each student does this everyday\u00a0they will be very successful. For some students\u00a0they may worry each day about getting\u00a0a signature for something. I particularly\u00a0think that this works very well for students. It\u00a0pushes students to have everything so they will not\u00a0get a signature again. Students may not want to get\u00a0one but I think it pushes them to want to be even better\u00a0at bringing all of their required materials.<\/p>\n

PBIS does help students, but for\u00a0some it might be more pressure. Many\u00a0students at Brownell do everything that\u00a0is necessary on the PBIS card on a daily basis. Once\u00a0in a great while even people who bring everything all\u00a0the time might forget something once but it\u2019s only a\u00a0one time thing. This will still help even students who\u00a0organized the best stay organized.\u00a0A nice thing I think would work would be if students\u00a0got no signatures for one whole semester. For half of\u00a0the school year students used PBIS and since they\u00a0did well with the PBIS card I think they can be very\u00a0responsible without the PBIS card for the second semester.<\/p>\n

Another idea that I think would be good to\u00a0do is let students who have no signatures carry over\u00a0to the next quarter. I think that PBIS really helps students\u00a0who might be having much trouble with being\u00a0organized.<\/p>\n

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Program focuses on negatives<\/p>\n

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PBIS is Brownell\u2019s new positive behavior system.\u00a0Every time you forget something for a class, you\u2019re tardy, or\u00a0didn\u2019t complete your homework, you get a signature. Most\u00a0teachers love the new PBIS system, but what about the students?<\/p>\n

I would think that the majority students at\u00a0Brownell are organized, on time, and respectful in class.\u00a0PBIS could actually make those of students less organized.\u00a0At their locker during passing time, students\u00a0could be so worried about having everything for their\u00a0classes that they lose track of time and are tardy.\u00a0So all that trouble they went through to\u00a0not get a signature was a total waste of time,\u00a0since a tardy is now a signature on your PBIS\u00a0card.<\/p>\n

Meg Gleason, 7th grader said, \u201cI don\u2019t really like\u00a0PBIS because it focuses too much on the negatives. You\u00a0could be a really good student, or do something really good,\u00a0then forget a ruler or be a minute tardy for\u00a0class and then you get a signature. PBIS is\u00a0just too negative.\u201d<\/p>\n

PBIS is a new thing for everyone BUT\u00a0the 7th graders, since they were the guinea\u00a0pigs for the entire operation last year in 6th\u00a0grade.<\/p>\n

Last year, at the end of the third and\u00a0fourth quarter, if you had less than five\u00a0signatures you got to participate in a fun\u00a0day. Students could choose to go with a\u00a0teacher and play games and dodge ball,\u00a0or stay in the MPR and watch a movie\u00a0during one afternoon at the end of a quarter.<\/p>\n

This year though, there may not be any fun or\u00a0games. The fun day last year seemed like an incentive to try\u00a0to make students want to get less signatures so they could\u00a0participate. But since there may not be any fun day this\u00a0year, do students stop trying?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the sixth week of school and there have already\u00a0been students with more than ten signatures. Could that be\u00a0simply because 6th and 8th graders are still getting used to\u00a0the system, or is it because 7th graders don\u2019t have to worry\u00a0about missing the fun day?<\/p>\n

All in all, PBIS is a nice idea, but does Brownell\u00a0really need it? Our school is full of hardworking students\u00a0who don\u2019t need PBIS bringing them down. Is the new Positive\u00a0Behavior Interventions and Supports(PBIS) really positive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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