I will add this to the list of student jobs and see if it works this year. I think it might. The kid who is the Bump 5 English Counter counts every time the teacher breaks into English. Not how long they do it, which could be up to two minutes if the teacher is really having a bad day, but how many times during the term they do that.
The Bump 5 English Counter also keeps a talley of how many times in a grading period the class does the same. It’s a two way street. Either party, the teacher or the class, is at risk at any time for being nailed for English use by the Bump 5 English Counter. Needless to say, the student in charge of this job needs to be a true bean counter, in the best sense of the term.
Then, if, at the end of the grading term, the class has more incidents of the use of English than the teacher, nothing happens. If, however, the teacher has used English more times than the class, even by one utterance, then each student in the class gets an automatic blanket five points added to their composite score for the grading term.
This does not apply for the first two weeks of school, while the teacher is norming the class.
