School Discipline Made Easy

Everyone in the course of their lifetime goes on a search for discipline. How often do we question ourselves about having enough courage, direction, fortitude, will, desire, or discipline to stay the course. As a general observation, people with discipline in their lives are, usually, more successful and happy as compared to people with  little or no discipline in their lives. A person living a life without discipline has an intrinsic understa...

The battle over public education rages on. New school reformers see the public school system as a complete failure. Some new school reformers have the best interests of the students in mind, many more new school reformers see a big cash cow ready for slaughter. The problem with new school reformers is,  they cannot see or understand the problems faced in public schools. Only, when one can not see or understand the problems of public schools w...

Jeb Bush was on television pontificating his views and plans for education in America. Of course with the teacher strike going on in Chicago, The teachers were branded as greedy and thinking only about their self interests. Teachers were, basically, selling out their students. His solutions were Charter Schools, increased privatization of the school system, hiring and firing of teachers would be completely in the hands of the principal, and teac...

Dear President Obama, You will not become the education president of the Twenty-First Century by pursuing education excellence with your <span style=”text-decoration:underline;”>Race To The Top</span> education plan. In Texas, We have had decades of competing in these race to the top type reform programs. Tags, Taas, Teks, etc. offer the same carrot or stick approaches and philosophies of education. Anyone that would use ...

Behaviorist Theory has drastically changed  the landscape in terms of using corporal punishment in schools, in public, or in the home. The mere mention of corporal punishment brings out all the screaming banshee defenders of Behaviorist Theory. Scathing articles are written questioning the sanity of anyone that even hints of the positive effects of corporal punishment. Victims of the overuse of corporate punishment are brought before the press...