What if you build your school-as-social-service, and then one day find that the kids are selling drugs to each other inside the school?
Or that the kids are constantly interfering with each other so much that the minority who want to follow their interests can’t?
I think any theory of school that doesn’t mention discipline is a theory of dry water. What powers and duties would the 1-supervisor-per-12-kids have? Can they remove disruptive kids from rooms? From the building entirely? Give detentions?
If there are actual crimes going on, I’d imagine the police should be called.
If a student is genuinely acting in bad faith—attending a class and ruining it for their peers—then they should be removed from the class and sent to a counselor/social worker.
Otherwise, “disruptive” is a difficult thing to pin down when there’s no actual instruction to be interrupting.
If a student is genuinely acting in bad faith—attending a class and ruining it for their peers—then they should be removed from the class and sent to a counselor/social worker.
The number of such students is larger than you think. But the more important question is what the social worker would do with the student—what tools would be available to them. Because by default the student will just disrupt another class tomorrow and so on. There isn’t any magic method to make disruptive students non-disruptive; schools would love to have access to such magic if it existed.
What if you build your school-as-social-service, and then one day find that the kids are selling drugs to each other inside the school?
Or that the kids are constantly interfering with each other so much that the minority who want to follow their interests can’t?
I think any theory of school that doesn’t mention discipline is a theory of dry water. What powers and duties would the 1-supervisor-per-12-kids have? Can they remove disruptive kids from rooms? From the building entirely? Give detentions?
If there are actual crimes going on, I’d imagine the police should be called.
If a student is genuinely acting in bad faith—attending a class and ruining it for their peers—then they should be removed from the class and sent to a counselor/social worker.
Otherwise, “disruptive” is a difficult thing to pin down when there’s no actual instruction to be interrupting.
The number of such students is larger than you think. But the more important question is what the social worker would do with the student—what tools would be available to them. Because by default the student will just disrupt another class tomorrow and so on. There isn’t any magic method to make disruptive students non-disruptive; schools would love to have access to such magic if it existed.