Maintaining classroom discipline is a growing problem for many schools. 46) Some children seem incapable of following the rules, perhaps because they feel they are unreasonable or unclear.
There can be no such excuse at Bebington High School on the Wirral. When children misbehave at Bebington, the teacher immediately writes their names on the classroom board. They know they are in trouble and they know what the penalty is likely to be. Their classmates know too that the choice to break the rules was their own.
47) The effect, claim the proponents of this American system of discipline, has been to improve behaviour, allowing more time to be spent on teaching. "Assertive discipline" was introduced into Bebington last September and Margaret Hodson, a science teacher, says the results are "little short of a miracle".
Since the program was introduced into England two years ago, 450 schools, 80 per cent of them primary have adop
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