I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.
We’re becoming an undisciplined people …
I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.
Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.
To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.
Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again
I was a talker back in elementary school. I used to get A's and B's in everything, but I got an F in conduct.
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'
I had very bad temper tantrums. I was in more grammar schools than there are years of grammar school. I got kicked out of, like, two preschools, a kindergarten.
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.
At school, I was a lot more advanced compared to the other kids but I didn't like authority and was kicked out for fighting.
It was tough coaching Australia. They were so set in their ways because they have been the right ways - but the culture needed changing because the discipline was shoddy.
