My high school math teacher did it right. He said if we finished tomorrow's homework in class we could go to the back and play checkers. We all did our homework while he was teaching the lesson. After the teaching part it was checkers game on. Even he played.
I kinda did the same thing as a cub scout webelos leader. We were supposed to have an hour lesson/activity each week. But 10-11 year old boys get bored after awhile. So my deal was properly participate for a half hour, then we will play flag football in the park for the last half hour.
Yeah, schools nowadays can be problematic. I know, my wife teaches high school and intermediate school. Enabled kids, administrators doing the cya and not backing the teachers, etc.
