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To: epicure who wrote (1537)	5/27/2003 4:47:24 PM
From: Sunny	Read Replies (1) of 793843

X, you are still missing the point. The problems in the schools today are the product of a lack of discipline. Whether corporal punishment is the right tool to enforce discipline or whether there is a better way to do it, I will leave it to the experts. However, I only point out that when teachers lost the ability to apply discipline very near to the breach, they lost control of the class room. The companion to this is when parents quit reinforcing the need for discipline in the classroom and in many cases actually made the teacher the issue rather than the child's misconduct the slide accelerated. I would also point out that the types of problems in the schools today are a great deal different than they were 30+ years ago when I graduated from high school and can probably be traced to the beginning of "let's find more intelligent ways to discipline ill mannered kids". NO responsible adult advocates physical abuse of children and neither do I. I ask you are the class rooms in your school orderly and can all of the teachers teach with out interruption? If not, your school and all of it's teachers could better fulfill their function if there were more discipline. The second part of my first message on this subject had to do with parental involvement and the expectation that their children would achieve up to their potential. These factors weigh very heavily in the difference in the results the between most private and public school performance. Private school parents pay for their children's education 2 times and have every right to expect them to give good measure. Your tactic of trying to equate the way discipline in the business world is enforced to the school is a bit disingenuous and seeks only to apply a label to the person who questions the issue rather than addressing the root cause of the problem. Good luck at school, Sunny

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