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The lost art of discipline : Comments
By Kevin Donnelly, published 11/10/2013The real problem - and one of the main reasons so many teachers leave after three to four years in the profession - is noisy and disruptive classrooms.
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What does the Author really want? The return of the cane?
Good discipline starts in the home and with the parents.
If one sees a spoiled "child" still sucking on mummy's breast at four or five, forget it!
The reasons Asians are able to exert more discipline? Is tiger mums expect more from an earlier age and simply won't tolerate insubordination!
The children are not in charge the parents are!
Bring back compulsory military service (boot camp) and school cadets.
No need to flog kids when you can demand forty-fifty-sixty pushups, or worse, ask it of the whole class; and then let peer group pressure sort out the miscreants.
Give the biggest bullies the responsibility, (badge of honor) of prefects and protecting the most vulnerable from the most aggressive.
Bring back Compulsory Phys Ed. And get some physical activity going.
[Give me ten laps around the perimeter Mr Jones, and if they're not completed in the half hour, do twice as many more.]
Say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ever repeat yourself; and do whatever you threatened to do, be it send them to the principle or send them home!?
Excused Pys Ed students will need to produce a doctor's report that claims they are medically compromised or unable. Hole in the heart or cerebral palsy, no legs sir or some such?
Don't dismiss the effective use of an always carried, rarely used authoritarian cane, slammed with effect on a table, with a pistol shot crack, to emphasis a particular point or lambast a disruptive male, feeling all the new found testosterone coursing through his veins. And for all practical purposes, is just a pair of walking gonads!
Separate the boys from the girls, but particularly at puberty. Which seems to be the most problematic time for co-ed classrooms/classes. And yes, the Finnish model is an excellent and effective example!
Rhrosty.