SCHOOLS: Old-school discipline best for children’s sake*

Student misbehaviour is a significant problem for teachers, and schools must be given the freedom to implement more traditional forms of discipline and classroom management, pleads educationalist Dr Kevin Donnelly.When it comes to our classrooms, it’s clear that teachers have lost control and, as the saying goes, the inmates are in control of the asylum.Figures quoted in Melbourne’s Herald Sun show 50,000 Victorian children have been suspended from state schools in the past three years, violence…

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