Your post is perfectly reasonable. That’s nothing the Democrat Party and the teachers’ unions are going to find reasonable, though. Those are the kinds of people who believe that promoting pot usage and gangster rap will encourage children to come to school. I have little faith that the necessary reforms will be enacted without toppling the entire rotten edifice of public schooling, however.
I realize that the rest of my post will be controversial, but I would also argue that public humiliation of bullies and others who contribute towards a wanton school environment would be a useful method to keep them from harassing the rest of the students. Does a kid get Fs in the class? Okay, but he has to attend a 6-hour-a-week seminar with a tutor. Does a kid bring pornography magazines to class? Well, the administrator seizes them in front of the class, fines the kid for bringing lewdness into the classroom, and suspends the child for a good month. Does a child severely injure another child? Okay, but the administrator gets to publicly flog you and expel you. Instilling respect towards authority should be our top priority, and I’ve found that public humiliation is a useful method to keep children from failing and rescinding into criminal activity. The free market recognizes the importance of maintaining order; the public schools don’t, and never will.
On this post, I meant the second-person usage of *you* to apply to the kid. I should have also mentioned that I think the rest of the class should know if the student is a failure; in an attempt to regain favor with his classmates, a student will study harder.
Sorry for any confusion I may have caused.
I dream of the day bullies are horsewhipped and shoved into special ed. Since their behavior disrupts the mainstream school environment, they should be kept in the fringes where their behavior, if it continues, will lead them to that very place in society. I am sure that if companies ran schools, the behavior of the students would be a reflection of how the companies are seen. Double incentive to maintain order and safety. We need to stop trying to mainstream juvenile criminals by subjecting decent students to their antics. Same with society.