What would you do if you were in charge of the school system to cut down on bullies and violence in schools?

Answer 1

I'd get active in creating after school programs REQUIRED by trouble students. It'd be schedule friendly. Not a punishment. It'd be fun in fact. Different forms of mediation, but something the students could actually relate to. If one chooses not to use the mediation facility, then they'll be given the natural punishment otherwise. If you care about your advancement, then we care too. If you don't, You won't be able to hinder any other students from their right to progress. What I'd always hated most while I was in the institution was the fact that the faculty never took time to empathize with your problem. If you were late, even by a few seconds, you received a disciplinary action of a few hours. A few seconds for a few hours, but if a teacher had a bad day, happened to come in late, no consequence. For the most part, school isn't optional to kids, and people hate being forced into things that they don't want. Thus, I feel up until a student has the full option of choice whether or not to go to school, they're required to be entertained while learning. They can't be forced into a small cramped room and told to be quiet and listen to a boring adult rattle on about something they have no interest in. School should be for the RIGHT brained as well as the left brain. Not just facts but involvement. I say they should try to make each level as much like kindergarten as acceptable for the material being learned. I find people learn a LOT more efficiently when they're having fun learning, rather than dragging through it. It's not work if you're having fun. I don't think you should group school people into a place in order of location, but by order of interst, art people should go into a school geared towards art. Math and number people should go to left brained institutions, still fun but more on the logical end of things rather than creative. Regular curriculum would be taught to each student embodying all general subjects to of course, to make well rounded children. The child should be given as much choice as possible. Even if it is a bit of a joke of what career they want to go into at first, that's when they're their most creative. It's only when people lose their creativity and start being scared and caring what others think of them do they bottle up and no longer show the natural curiousity, wonder for life, and intuition that they had normally. I'd do my best to turn that school into more of a recreational center. Natural testing methods being used but in a new and active way by state schooling officials. The recreational center would be the place where the mediation would take place. No blame, simply a logical and wise solution to every problem. If a student feels upset about what another student did, they should be encouraged to talk it out on their own, for communication is a very important aspect of life. Each student should be taught, and every teacher should know, that to encourage a behavior is to give praise for it, not to manipulate or tease or get upset about it, If something doesn't go their way, they'd be taught proper coping methods. How to look at what they do have, and what they did accomplish and how this minor setback isn't going to stop them acheiving great things. Much praise in a school that I'd make. Little to no punishment. Only removal if a student didn't want to be there. And that'd be obvious by their actions. I don't know why a student wouldn't want to, learning would be so much fun at such a place.

Answer 2

Harsher punishments. Most of the time, all I see is a slap on the wrist. Sometimes it's detention or suspension, but it rarely works.