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However, a good teacher who is a natural leader will usually be able to gain the respect of the class by respecting them. Teachers (especially subsitutes) who enter the classroom with the "Sit down, little heathens" attitude, spoken or unspoken, will rarely have obedient classes, and they will even more rarely touch or teach anybody. Children are little people, and they can tell when they are resented, feared, loved, or ignored. |
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Discipline is NOT saying to a child "That is naughty, don't do it"... Discipline is a smacked bottom! I believe it is the best way... and I was brought up with it... and so I am proof that it works. I thank my parents every day that they disciplined me right. At my school we still have the cane/paddle. It doesn't do much though. |
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Some people need intrinsic motivation and others need extrinsic motivation. |
How does home schooling sound? I personally don't know how effective it is. Unless you know how the best way to teach your child math, then you should go to someone that does know. I realize that regular school is horrible compared to most every other world class countries. What should we do? We should find out what our schools are teaching our children, find out what is, and what is not necessary, and find out from experts what are the best subjects we need to learn, how to learn them.
One of my teachers admitted that he was teaching something that we would never need. This should be totally unacceptable.
Like I said, I don't think that home schooling is the answer. What do you think?
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US: End Beating of Children in Public Schools 20 Aug 2008 08:00:35 GMT Source: Human Rights Watch Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. Abusive, Discriminatory Punishment Undermines Education More than 200,000 US public school students were punished by beatings during the 2006-2007 school year, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a joint report released today. In the 13 states that corporally punished more than 1,000 students per year, African-American girls were twice as likely to be beaten as their white counterparts. |
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"...It left me feeling very humiliated. I think there were several levels of emotion. Physical pain, mental humiliation. And being a female at that age, it was, like, there was this older man hitting me on the butt. That's weird - even at that age I knew it was inappropriate." -- Allison G., a recent graduate punished as a teenager in Texas for being late to class multiple times. |