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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Re: corporal punishment in schools
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 13:15:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 13:15:37 1985
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> I agree that schools don't have my approval.  The proper discipline of a child
> is the exclusive responsibility of the parents.  There is a very big mistake

Discipline is influencing and molding a persons character.
Everything in life teaches discipline. Sometimes in ways a
parent approves of, and sometimes in ways a parent does not.
Discipline is BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE reinforcement.

A teacher telling
students not to talk is disciplining. A teacher telling a kid
"You did really great on that" is disciplining. Peers teach
kids positive and negative discipline. "If you'll let me play
on your swing set I'll let you play with my new basketball."
or "If you do that I'll tell."

Please don't confuse the issue of a particular MEANS of
discipline with the term DISCIPLINE, itself.

> being made in public education by getting children into school who are not yet
> mature enough to handle the social and academic responsibiliies of the
> classroom.

How do you define mature enough? I get the feeling that the
average 6 or 7 year old isn't, as you  would define it.
-- 
Suzanne Barnett

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