Discipline In Lean On Me

Discipline is an important part of raising a child and it is especially important when a child is in high school. High school is a time in a child’s life when they start to experiment with different things, like drugs and sex and they are still trying to figure out who they are. In the movie, “Lean on Me”, Principal Joe Clark disciplines the students and teachers by suspending them and keeping them to stay in school by putting locks on the door. Joe Clark wanted to help the kids out enough that he took the responsibility to take care of them and discipline them. When children are younger it is important to discipline them. It is important to discipline because it would stop children from making dumb decisions when they are older, especially in high school. The movie, “Lean on Me” showed kids in high school that have never been disciplined before and they are doing drugs, having sex and they aren’t trying in school, most of them had been in high school for …show more content…
In “Lean on Me”, one of the parents got extremely upset because her child was kicked out of school. Joe Clark was looking at it like it was discipline and they should have done better when they were in school instead of being in high school when they are 19 to 21 years old. The parents would assume that their kid would need more help with school and the teachers would not help them, so they would just blame the teachers and leave their kids in school. Disciplining children could get adults in jail, when Joe Clark chained the doors as a discipline because he wanted to keep the people out of school out and the people in school in, he chained up the doors. The parents saw it as a hazard in case there was a fire and the students would not be able to get out in time, so Leona Barrett did everything she could to put him in jail. Teaching children discipline badly could result in the adults going to jail or other parents getting