I particularly liked your emphasis on providing explanations for discipline. That comes back to restrictive and elaborated language codes. I'm sorry that you are still under the weather. It was awesome,very enlightening, and it sparked my interest very much. We talked about the Santee shooting, the respect that kids should be taught at home and also how children are disciplined both in school and at home.
Children start learning to respect others at home.
Well at least that is how it was for me. The problem today, as we discussed yesterday, is that negative behavior that is acted out by children is being supported by some parents. Some children may go to school and disrespect their teacher, the teacher will discipline the child in some way, and the parent will act only on the one-sided story that they may have heard. Teachers have to feel as though they can properly discipline children for their negative behavior and the parents will support them in doing so. Only until then will children begin to show the same respect that they should have for their parents, to their teachers.