Interviews with parents of students with disabilities show that children were often physically restrained and secluded at school for nonviolent offenses.
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Ideas about corporal punishment become part of a culture that is passed from one generation to the next.
Suspending or expelling a student should be a last resort. But our study shows it is more common than it should be in NSW public schools.
Old-school parenting strategies like ‘go to your room!’ can often amplify the very behavior that parents want to correct.
New rules prompt schools to respond to harmful behaviour after hours. This makes them responsible for students after the bell and beyond.
A new executive order would create new guidelines on school discipline, suggesting the current ones are ‘discriminatory.’
Lack of co-ordination means that information important for the safety of children can be missed.
A former fencer who fell in love with the samurai sword explains how learning to wield the weapon can help people stave off trouble in other areas of life.
A new analysis finds that teacher sanctions are relatively rare. But when they do occur, it’s usually related to sex and drugs.
As NSW overhauls its approach to suspensions, school discipline continues to be one of the most difficult issues in Australian schools.
Too often, corporal punishment breaks young people and brutalises them.
The Channel Nine program pits ten different parenting styles against each other. It may make for compelling TV, but parents need information, not extra pressure.
In learning what we can from stressful situations, we can model efficient ways of coping for our children
Having loads of extra quality time with a toddler or preschooler and feeling flustered? Make sure you know how and where to do this basic disciplinary method the right way.
As many as 100,000 US adolescents currently spend at least part of the year in these therapeutic or disciplinary programs.
Research shows if time out is used occasionally, briefly and the child understands the process, it can be a useful parenting tool for kids aged two to eight.
Think of it like a ladder. You might not be at the top right now, but each new thing you learn takes you a step closer and means that your parents can relax the rules a little.
Until Canadians challenge the normalization of violence against children, we will continue to support, or at least tacitly condone, something that by all accounts is harmful.
A scholar explains the popular use of the label ‘cult,’ and what makes it problematic.
Despite the failure of zero tolerance discipline policies in schools, the Trump administration is targeting an Obama-era memo that sought to limit such policies.
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Professor and Director, Centre for Research in Educational and Social Inclusion, Adelaide University
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