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AUTHOR: teacherkeithDATE: 10/02/03 9:26pm
SUBJECT: Reply to Susan
IN REPLY TO: Re: Writing lines
AUTHOR: susanengland
I think grounding is a huge step up from hitting and writing something intersting is a huge step up from lines...

But as an English teacher I question making writing a punishment instead of a querencia, an art, a love, a release, a pleasure, a joy...

Is there another way to communicate with your teenager where you just relate without punishing at all?

I think writing essays on school topics is just awesome if it weren't a punishment. I worry about making school work into a control or power issue.

If you insist on punishing, it seems to be the most productive form of punishment and I like it better than other punishments BUT they teach in teacher's college in British Columbia Canada not to turn your subject into a punishment.

I don't punish when I teach high school and I have mostly well behaved students. The only serious trouble maker I had was from a punitive home that was so bad I had to call CPS.
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Writing lines
 clairemum07/10/03 04:51pm
Re: Writing lines
 dadthespanker07/10/03 07:33pm
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 teacherkeith10/02/03 09:15pm
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 jayrb07/11/03 06:19am
Re: Writing lines
 susanengland07/13/03 09:43am
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 bozorq07/28/03 05:10pm
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 teacherkeith10/02/03 09:26pm
Re: Writing lines
 teacherkeith10/02/03 09:14pm
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