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American Way
Posted Mar 7, 2009 11:13 AM
I'm sure this will be of interests to an honorary member of this esteem Forum. It's interesting from the Queensland historical perspective to see how attitudes toward corporal punishment have evolved encoded in student handbooks. The more reticence there is to using corporal punishment the stricter the regulations as this time line shows. Keeping of punishment books gives you a flavor of how trivial or serious misbehavior are handled on a quantitative level and how frequently or infrequently they have been used. The kinds of offenses have changed dramatically. Punishment books shows what happens after the fact and gives us information about what misbehavior crosses that threshold and the proportional response but it was left to the discretion of the teacher. Today, IMHO, the discipline matrices as discussed under the Southern school handbooks are the best of both worlds, it preserves fairness and assures transparency for the parents, teachers and students, anything less than that wouldn't be called the American Way.
http://education.qld.gov.au/library/edhistory/topics/corporal/extracts.html
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