How would a public school teacher actually go about teaching discipline and motivation? What should they tell the parents, when they don’t like the way the teacher is teaching?
Tools for motivation are: goal setting (Zig Ziglar’s Goals), long term multi-stage projects, rewarding excellence (not this everyone is a winner crap), etc.
Tools for discipline include marching, focus based games such as chess and other strategy games, memorization (memorizing the multiplication tables has gone out of style)
But the truth is ... it is not entirely the schools job. Much of this falls on the parents. My objection is that schools are MISS-REPRESENTING the elements of obtaining employment.