CLASSROOM BEHAVIORHAS WORSENED

Has Child Behavior Worsened?

Sarah EvansEDU/1019/29/14

“STOP PICKING ON ME”

For the last few decades, there have been an increase of children with behavioral problems in school.

It seems there will always be that one bully in the classroom that every student tries to stay away from, or the few children in the back of the room doodling on their desk instead of taking notes.

Who is to blame?

I DISAGREE

• I believe that behavior in the classroom may have worsened, but can be easily fixed if people would take the time to actually care.

• So, who is to blame?

• Parents

• Teachers

• Misbehaving children do not only misbehave in the classroom, but also at home. The parents need to take action and discipline the children when they are acting up. Just like adults get disciplined when they do not follow the law, children must follow the rules, as well. When they do not follow the rules, there are consequences.

PARENTS

TEACHERS

Not all parents are perfect. So, when a child is acting up in the classroom, the teachers cannot let it slide and continue with a screaming child in the back or paper planes flying around. Teachers must discipline the students just the same way a parent would.

Some examples would be:

• Time out

• Write an essay on how the student will not do it again

• Principle’s office

REWARDS

Everybody loves rewards! When a student follows the rules and behaves well, there should be a reward given.

My sixth grade teacher was always one to reward her students. For every day the students were good, a marble would go into a small mason jar. When the marbles were full, and the next marble falls out of the jar, she throws us a pizza party that following Friday!

This pizza party made us students want to behave.

RESOURCES

• Schultz, Frank. “Classroom Behavior Has Worsened.” Has Child Behavior Worsened? Ed. Amy Francis. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2014. At Issue. Rpt. from “Children Behaving Badly: Has it Gotten Worse?” Janesville Gazette 29 Apr. 2012. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 15. Sept. 2014.

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