On 12/10/08 10:06, Jeff Soules wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM, marc <gmane@auxbuss.com> wrote:
after all, is the priority of a school to educate or to discipline?
For an American public school? Unfortunately, probably the latter.
Pray forgive my cynicism...
Discipline a priority in American public schools? ROTFLMAO.
Seriously, though, the primary school that my sister teaches is pretty
strict (and their average test scores are like in the 90th percentile), but
they are mostly born-again right-wing Christians and most parents authorize
the school to apply corporal punishment.