After coming back to school three weeks ago, I discovered, to my disbelief, that the executives had installed TV's along our main school corridors. This TV system (affectionately called VCOM) was to deliver messages to the students as they walked down the corridors. Good in theory. But after Day 2, VCOM’s problems became immediately visible. Students quickly discovered that, in able to read the messages, one must wait in front of the screen for around one minute, blocking off the thoroughfares, waiting for the cycle of messages to complete. On top of blocking off corridors, VCOM isn’t very clear – with a terrible reception on all but one TV (making reading VCOM even harder).
Our principal has also decided to post the school rules on VCOM, so we get daily notices like 'be courteous to teachers' and 'walk on the left hand side of the corridors' as we all walk, rather rebelliously, down the right-hand side. I was just curious; does any other school in NSW have such a ridiculous system? (Keep in mind, we still have daily announcements and a school assembly once a week)…and if so, do you find it at all beneficial?
And here’s a photo of VCOM…(and yes, we have Pokka-dot walls )
Our principal has also decided to post the school rules on VCOM, so we get daily notices like 'be courteous to teachers' and 'walk on the left hand side of the corridors' as we all walk, rather rebelliously, down the right-hand side. I was just curious; does any other school in NSW have such a ridiculous system? (Keep in mind, we still have daily announcements and a school assembly once a week)…and if so, do you find it at all beneficial?
And here’s a photo of VCOM…(and yes, we have Pokka-dot walls )
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