Edu-News (03.25.2008)
Memphis, Tennessee:
The [Blue Ribbon] behavior plan has brought alternative schools for students who misbehave and more in-school suspensions and counseling. Most speakers have been critical of Blue Ribbon, saying it does not provide students with strong and rapid consequences for bad behavior.Emphasis is mine, but you can have some too. Full article here.
Several have begged the board to consider bringing corporal punishment back into schools. The board abolished the practice starting with the 2005-06 school year . . . .
Board member Kenneth Whalum Jr., who lobbied the board for months before the town hall meetings were adopted, thanked the community Monday night for its support and said he would continue to fight to reinstate corporal punishment.
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