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Wielding Peer Pressure to Build a More Wholesome Community

18 May 2023 | Filed under: Teaching

Spoken to an educator recently? Opened a newspaper? Then, no doubt you’ve heard about the startling increase in remarkably cruel, insensitive & flat-out rude behavior kids are showing on a regular basis. Group-think is short-circuiting basic decency with alarming regularity. At my middle school in recent months, as in schools …

“Zero tolerance” models intolerance

28 March 2014 | Filed under: Discipline, Teaching

Recently, there have been reports about another grade-schooler suspended for pointing his fingers like a gun (see the Ohio Dispatch story). I often dismiss these stories because (as anyone in education knows, with horror) the media “coverage” is usually one side of the story, or less.  Schools often won’t comment due …

This is your intervention…

23 March 2014 | Filed under: Bullying, Teaching, Whole Child

Even before there was a state law, my school took on bullying. We treated it as harassment, holding out the spectre of serious legal consequences if cruelty continued or for any retaliation. I argued, then as now, that school is a civil right, and anyone interfering with that is stealing …

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