Discipline Students in First through Sixth grade are often poorly trained at home in positive methods of conflict resolution. Working with them one at a time as violence erupts takes a toll on the teachers, yard duty supervisors and administrators.
School violence is the primary safety issue.
At the last school where I worked as principal, I began taking prescription Tagamet, hoping to prevent digestive trouble from developing into true ulcers. That first year we issued 87 suspensions on a campus of 450. And we had the only three homeless shelters in the community, all within our school s attendance area. And there was more parents on drugs, in and out of jail, head lice, kids without socks and sometimes without underwear . Only 29 the next year.