Traditional Home and School Discipline

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Yet many criticized corporal punishment for its ineffectiveness. Education reformer Horace Mann called it "a relic of barbarism" and argued that students should learn how to monitor their own behaviors. Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), wrote in support of zero tolerance laws, saying education reform would be impossible without them. "The truth of the matter is that none of these changes will achieve what we want unless schools are safe and ordely places where teachers can teach and students can learn," he wrote. In China, long-time detention is perhaps less common than in the US, the UK, Ireland, Singapore, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and some other countries. However, short-time detention by the teachers is still common. Teachers may ask the students to do some missed work after school. That started to change around the turn of the century. Between 1890 and 1918, high school enrollment increased by 711 percent. The traditional one-room schoolhouse gave way to multiple, stratified classrooms and a principal who oversaw them. This new hierarchy of adults meant the principal, not the teacher, started to dole out discipline. Rosenbaum, Janet (2018). "Educational and Criminal Justice Outcomes 12 Years After School Suspension". Youth and Society. 52 (4): 515–547. doi: 10.1177/0044118X17752208. PMC 7288849. PMID 32528191.

Arum, Richard (October 30, 2003). Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01179-3. The programme involves exploring ideas on how schools maintain calm classrooms for all by sharing ideas and best practice in the knowledge that there is no one-size-fits-all solution and different approaches will suit different schools. Are children allowed mobile phones in schools? Ahmad, Farah Z. and Tiffany Miller. "The High Cost of Truancy." Center for American Progress, (August 2015). Editors of Rethinking Schools (2014). Restorative Justice: What it is and is not. Rethinking Schools. Retrieved December 1, 2016. http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/29_01/edit1291.shtml

Corporal punishment in schools has now disappeared from most Western countries, including all European countries. In the United States, corporal punishment is not used in public schools in 36 states, banned in 33, and permitted in 17, of which only 14 actually have school districts actively administering corporal punishment. Every U.S. state except New Jersey and Iowa permits corporal punishment in private schools, but an increasing number of private schools have abandoned the practice, especially Catholic schools. Thirty-one U.S. states as well as the District of Columbia have banned corporal punishment from public schools, most recently Colorado in 2023. The other 17 states (mostly in the South) continue to allow corporal punishment in public schools. Of the 17 which permit the practice, three – Arizona, North Carolina, Wyoming have no public schools that actually use corporal punishment as of 2023. In North Carolina however, all school districts have banned the practice. Paddling is still used to a significant (though declining) degree in some public schools in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. Private schools in these and most other states may also use it, though many choose not to do so.

Discipline Policy and Procedures" (PDF). Delran Township School District, New Jersey. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 24, 2012 . Retrieved January 25, 2009.School discipline relates to actions taken by teachers or school organizations toward students when their behavior disrupts the ongoing educational activity or breaks a rule created by the school. Discipline can guide the children's behavior or set limits to help them learn to take better care of themselves, other people and the world around them. [1] But research has shown in recent years that zero tolerance didn't succeed in making schools safer and did result in racial gaps in school discipline. a b c Heitzeg, Nancy A. (2009). "Education or Incarceration: Zero Tolerance Policies and the School to Prison Pipeline" (PDF). Forum on Public Policy Online. 2009 (2). ERIC EJ870076. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 27, 2010.