Typically, students are isolated during class and lunch hours, but still have to do the same classwork. Their transgression for this punishment could range from being late for school to being disrespectful to a teacher. Schools also might order a child to stay after school on Friday or attend school on Saturday, but only if the teacher is sure the student has transportation home, officials said. Some teachers, such as Northwood Middle School's Jan Friedmeyer, might order a misbehaving student to stand in class until permitted to sit down. Others send problem students to the principal.
Teachers also can expel a student from the classroom for one day.
A principal can suspend a student for as long as five days. Longer suspensions or expulsions require approval of a hearing officer. Such tactics are foreign to long-ago school administrators. He led FWCS from 1961 to 1980. FWCS administrative offices bear his name.