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Show i. ii i ! i and Homo p Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretory Utah Education Association A Utah teacher recently took a poll of his students, and one of ., the r questions was: Can you imagine rr yourself as a teacher? 3tjftp Tl' One student answsered thatp question this way: i " ' "No. I would have killed one of the I mouthy kids on the first day." ;. "No." wrote another student, "because I would hate to have to . battle kids all day." Several of the high school students expressed resentment toward "lip-py", "lip-py", undisciplined classmates. It bears out the results of far more sophisiticated polls by Gallup and others. The Gallup poll said teenage students' top complaint in school is lack of discipline. Many teachers will tell you that discipline is one of learning's greatest ' friends-and that lack of discipline is one of its worst enemies. Many, if not most, students in Utah, are well-motivated people, intensely interested in working the education mine for all it's worth. These students rightfully resent the actions of their "lippy" or "mouthy" schoolmates. Disciplien is probably best attained when a student gets a consistent message about the topic. If a student comes from a permissive per-missive home and doesn't somehow ? acquire self-discipline, can that kid ( become an excited, interested, initiative-loaded scholar? ' Researchers are saying more and more that parent "involvement" in ? their children's education-a three-way three-way partnership of kids, parents and teachers-is the key to significant ; progress in learning. It's probably the key to discipline in the schools, too. The parent who expresses disgust about a son's or daughter's reports of school cafeteria food-throwing, a classmate's disruption of the class or a fist fight in the schoolyard is making a statement for better learning. |