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School rules

Jul 04, 2021 | Category: behaviour

Should schools have rules? Obviously, yes. No one - I think - disputes the necessity of having rules that keep people safe and make life easier and more pleasant for everyone involved. So, a rule sett...

#rules

Why can't we agree about internal isolation?

Jan 19, 2020 | Category: behaviour

The debate about whether schools should be allowed to internally exclude children from lessons is a hot topic at the moment, with all sorts of people weighing in at both ends of the spectrum of opinio...

Are schools ever at fault for exclusions?

Nov 11, 2019 | Category: behaviour

Sometimes schools get it wrong. It may even be that there are some schools led by nefarious headteachers who, in an effort to game league tables, seek to get rid of those students who are most likely...

#exclusion

What causes exclusion and what does exclusion cause?

Nov 10, 2019 | Category: behaviour

Adult authority in schools is a paper tiger which depends on students agreeing to accept it. Some children choose not to and therefore have the power to make the lives of others miserable. Over the ye...

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Do detentions work?

Apr 29, 2019 | Category: behaviour

When I was a student I was given a lot of detentions. After some particularly appalling behaviour on a French exchange trip I was given two months of 1 hour after school detentions. This was a big dea...

#detentions

If you tolerate this then your children will be next

Mar 16, 2019 | Category: behaviour

What kinds of poor behaviour should we tolerate? How much should we tolerate? There's a wellspring of opinion that zero tolerance is too much, that we ought to tolerate some poor behaviour, but how mu...

#no excuses #zero-tolerance #Jeremy Hardy

"It's all about relationships"

Nov 11, 2018 | Category: behaviour

Every now and then I come across the argument that the success or failure of a teacher is due to the quality of their relationships with students. Poor behaviour? Ineffective lessons? "It's all about...

#behaviour #Thomas Hobbes

An argument for order

Oct 24, 2018 | Category: behaviour

The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy within a system will always increase over time. What starts off as order descends, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but inexorably into chaos...

The problem with 'unconditional positive regard'

Feb 27, 2018 | Category: behaviour

If you're a parent and your child misbehaves in public, what do you do? If you're not a parent, and someone else's child misbehaves in public, what would you like the parents to do? Adults are predisp...

#Carl Rogers #Unconditional positive regard

12 Rules for Schools - Rule 5 Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them

Feb 02, 2018 | Category: behaviour

Welcome to the fifth installment in a series of posts adapting Jordan Peterson’s book, 12 Rules of Life to the context of eduction. All the posts in this series are collected here. This is not intende...

#12 Rules for Life #Jordan Peterson