I’ve recently come across a problem in my 4th grade classroom. My students want to put stickers on everything.
Okay, maybe not everything. But it’s starting to feel that way. Every few days I have a student come up to me, eyes wide open, very deer-caught-in-headlights with a concern: they’ve seen or read something “inappropriate” in a book, and their answer is to cover whatever it is up with a sticker.
Aside from the fact that I can’t figure out why they chose stickers to solve the problem, I don’t know how to respond to the problem. I honestly don’t find half the things they think are inappropriate bad. In my opinion they’re over reacting.