A Lenient Form of Public Discipline at Trinity Hall
Because Trinity Hall is a new school, an honor system has not been fully established for students. When developing an honor system, one must look at how other schools discipline their students and decide whether or not those punishments fit Trinity Hall’s mission and core values of respect, leadership, faith, and perseverance.
Corporal punishment in schools has changed drastically over the past 50 years in the harshness in which students are publicly disciplined with. Although it is still allowed in some states, teachers used to hit students by spanking them or using a ruler to hit their hand. This form of punishment has evolved into public shaming which is often more embarrassing and causes …show more content…
I remember when I was in sixth grade, my teacher had a policy that if you yawned in class or put your head down on the desk, you would have to get up in front of the class and do jumping jacks until you felt that you were awake and alert. I never thought that it would happen to me and I thought of it as a rather foolish rule to have because one cannot help yawning or being tired in school. It was not until it happened to me that I realized how humiliating it was to stand in front of the class and have everyone look at me while I did jumping jacks.
Middle school punishments differ than those of high school punishments depending on the severity of the rule broken and what the school’s policy is on discipling students. At SJV, there is a bulletin board where the deans would post a list of students who got detention each week and it was publicly displayed for would everyone to see as they passed by it in the hallway. This form of discipling students is not too harsh and it serves as a reminder to those who got detention when to serve it, but it also allowed for other students to see who got detention every …show more content…
By not giving away students’ names when they break the rules, they are respecting the individual and following Trinity’s core values. If the administration were to give away students names when they broke a rule and were to be given detention, the student would be humiliated and looked down upon by their peers and other teachers. Just because they did something wrong, does not mean that they are a bad person it just means that they need to reflect on what they have done and stop it from happening again which is why an indirect approach of publicly shaming students should be used at Trinity
Because Trinity Hall is a new school, an honor system has not been fully established for students. When developing an honor system, one must look at how other schools discipline their students and decide whether or not those punishments fit Trinity Hall’s mission and core values of respect, leadership, faith, and perseverance.
Corporal punishment in schools has changed drastically over the past 50 years in the harshness in which students are publicly disciplined with. Although it is still allowed in some states, teachers used to hit students by spanking them or using a ruler to hit their hand. This form of punishment has evolved into public shaming which is often more embarrassing and causes …show more content…
I remember when I was in sixth grade, my teacher had a policy that if you yawned in class or put your head down on the desk, you would have to get up in front of the class and do jumping jacks until you felt that you were awake and alert. I never thought that it would happen to me and I thought of it as a rather foolish rule to have because one cannot help yawning or being tired in school. It was not until it happened to me that I realized how humiliating it was to stand in front of the class and have everyone look at me while I did jumping jacks.
Middle school punishments differ than those of high school punishments depending on the severity of the rule broken and what the school’s policy is on discipling students. At SJV, there is a bulletin board where the deans would post a list of students who got detention each week and it was publicly displayed for would everyone to see as they passed by it in the hallway. This form of discipling students is not too harsh and it serves as a reminder to those who got detention when to serve it, but it also allowed for other students to see who got detention every …show more content…
By not giving away students’ names when they break the rules, they are respecting the individual and following Trinity’s core values. If the administration were to give away students names when they broke a rule and were to be given detention, the student would be humiliated and looked down upon by their peers and other teachers. Just because they did something wrong, does not mean that they are a bad person it just means that they need to reflect on what they have done and stop it from happening again which is why an indirect approach of publicly shaming students should be used at Trinity