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Show Schoolers, and Home 7 Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretary Utah Education Association . If that happens three or fpur times a day, the dam age to instruction in that class is considerable. There's no miracle remedy rem-edy for breakdowns in discipline. dis-cipline. Even when Dad wielded that peach tree switch with such devastating devastat-ing effectiveness 25 years ago, there were still some disciplinary difficulties. However, old hands in the teaching game will tell you there were fewer problems then. The point is, when parents support educators in the quest for school discipline, dis-cipline, we seem to have better discipline. So Mom and Dad, choose your own way to persuade the children to behave in school, but please do it soon. Schools need your support. It is 25 years ago, your father has just gotten word from your teacher that you've been rotten in school today, and you're plenty worried. wor-ried. You have cause to be frantic, fran-tic, because the Daddies of 1955 frown on misconduct, and they use a tactic known as 'woodshedding' to combat it. Now, in 1980, that practice prac-tice lacks universal acceptance accep-tance among parents. Despite that, the fourth largest school system in the U.S. recently approved a return re-turn to corporal punishment. That is in Los Angeles. The swing back to the rod is an effort to halt the increasing' absence of discipline among 1 students. This is not to argue one side or the other on the ques -tion of whether to paddle or not to paddle. The matter is raised simply to demonstrate demon-strate that folks, we have a serious problem. School administrators and . teachers are seeing a continual con-tinual deterioration of discipline dis-cipline in the classroom. It doesn't take a lot to cause a serious disruption of education in a classroom. After all, concentration on the classroom task is essential es-sential to progress to the ',. progress of every student in the room. One student hassling a classmate or the teacher can destroy the class focus on a learning point. |