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Bill: No Direct Discipline In the Classroom
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kundrati Revolutionary Movement
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 2120
Description[?]:
| As new research into education continues, it continues to support the fact that direct discipline accomplishes nothing except fostering a sense of coercion, resentment, shame and anger in students. While students who constitute a threat to themselves or their classmates should be removed from the classroom, this should be for the sole purpose of protecting the safety and learning environment of the classroom, and should not used as a method for 'solving' a problem. It is time for us to begin phasing out an out-moded form of classroom management, and get our teachers the training they need to keep up to date with the best methods available. Therefore, we propose that: 1) All teacher certification courses must now teach non-coercive management models as the primary form of classroom management, with the use of direct discipline reserved for issues of safety and the classroom learning environment. 2) Teachers currently certified will be required to take classroom management classes in non-coercive discipline models as part of the regular maintenance of their certification. 3) Teachers who use direct discipline can be reprimanded by their superiors if it is determined that there was no safety or leaning environment issue to warrant the use of coercive discipline methods. Repeated reprimands for this reason will result in the teacher being placed on probation for two years, during which time they will be regularly assessed by a regionally certifiied education probation officer. 4) Parents can file suit if they feel the school, shool board or school district is not enforcing these standards, or are enforcing them in such a way as to violate the law. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Current: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Proposed: No forms of direct discipline are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:43:46, October 01, 2005 CET | From | Party of Evil | To | Debating the No Direct Discipline In the Classroom |
| Message | No. Without any way to actually enforce their authority, teachers will be unable to keep order. |
| Date | 20:12:57, October 01, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the No Direct Discipline In the Classroom |
| Message | holy crap, are you serious? This is one of the most asinine things I've ever seen on here. (and this string of vote canvassing is getting a bit tiresome as well) |
| Date | 22:39:39, October 01, 2005 CET | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the No Direct Discipline In the Classroom |
| Message | Yes we are serious. Direct disciplne doesn't work - or did the kids you went to school with who always got detentions and suspensions turn things around and wind up at the top of their class? There are underlying issues to be addressed, and that is what we should focus on. Why bother hanging on to a system that we know doesn't imporve the situation, and in fact makes it worse? Especially when we know there are better ways to run things? |
| Date | 00:38:53, October 02, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the No Direct Discipline In the Classroom |
| Message | I knew plenty of the "bad kids" who eventually got their shit together and did well. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I'm getting the impression that you think teachers just willy nilly hand out detentions and suspensions? Maybe it's just me, but I've never seen anyone get these levels of punishment unless there are, as you put it, "issues of safety and the classroom learning environment." They're last ditch efforts to get a kid to straighten out. What do you propose teachers do? Circle the kids up and talk it out? Give out cup cakes? Touchy Feely crap doesn't work for this in our opinion. |
| Date | 07:44:12, October 02, 2005 CET | From | Kundrati Revolutionary Movement | To | Debating the No Direct Discipline In the Classroom |
| Message | Except that studies keep showing that 'touchy feely crap' is what actually does work. Detentions and the like create an atmosphere of fear and distrust that only ensures the continuation of the problems they were allegedly supposed to solve. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 102 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 203 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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