Did you see Dr. Phil’s show on Corporal Punishment? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Here’s additional thoughts…

• I frequently hear people say that “Corporal Punishment should come back.”
• I have even heard people say “Corporal Punishment Disappeared and School Resource Officers Showed Up.”
• The following slides show the reality of those statements…or lack thereof.

23 states still have no ban on corporal punishment…

US Dept of Education: Office of Civil Rights

Top ten for paddling

Not outlawed

• Wouldn’t the states with the highest rates of corporal punishment have the highest academic achievement?

• Corporal Punishment Data gathered from:
• Office of Civil Rights
• National Education Association

• Public Elementary and Secondary School Revenue per $1,000 Personal Income (Table 56) +
• Percent of Public Elementary and Secondary School Current Expenditures used for Instruction (Table 134) +
• Percent of Population Graduated from High School (Table 171) +
• Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate for Public High Schools (Table 174) +
• Percent of Public School Fourth Graders Proficient or Better in Reading (Table 203) +
• Percent of Public School Eighth Graders Proficient or Better in Reading (Table 211) +
• Percent of Public School Fourth Graders Proficient or Better in Writing (Table 219) +
• Percent of Public School Eighth Graders Proficient or Better in Writing (Table 227) +
• Percent of Public School Fourth Graders Proficient or Better in Mathematics (Table 235) +
• Percent of Public School Eighth Graders Proficient or Better in Mathematics (Table 243) +
• Average Teacher Salary as a Percent of Average Annual Pay of All Workers (Table 364) +
• Average Daily Attendance as a Percent of Fall Enrollment in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools (Table 398) +
• Percent of School-Age Population in Public Schools (Table 389) +
• High School Drop Out Rate (Table 191) -
• Special Education Pupil-Teacher Ratio (Table 339) -
• Percent of Public Elementary and Secondary School Staff Who are School District Administrators (Table 380) -
• Average Class Size in Public Elementary Schools (Table 425) -
• Average Class Size in Public Secondary Schools (Table 426) -
• Median Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Public Primary Schools (Table 429) -
• Median Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Public Middle Schools (Table 432) -
• Median Pupil-Teacher Ratio in Public High Schools (Table 435) -

• No…want to know more about Positive Interventions?
• Check out www.pbis.org for school-wide positive behavior support.
• Discipline means to “teach” not to paddle, ridicule, kick out, suspend, or fail.
• We need to teach children the behaviors we want to see.
• We need to model the behaviors we want to see.
• We need to give students opportunities to practice these behaviors.
• We need to catch students being good and label appropriate behaviors.

• Is it harmful to “catch students being good?”
• “…our research team has conducted a series of reviews and analysis of (the reward) literature; our conclusion is that there is no inherent negative property of reward. Our analyses indicate that the argument against the use of rewards is an overgeneralization based on a narrow set of circumstances.”
• Cameron, 2002
• Cameron & Pierce, 1994, 2002
• Cameron, Banko & Pierce, 2001

• Shores, Gunter, and Jack (1993) researched schools and measured how often students were doing the right thing and they found that students comply with the rules 80% of the time.
• Shores, Gunter, and Jack (1993) then measured how often the adults in the environment complimented students for their appropriate behavior. What percentage do you think they found?

• Check out the Positive Interventions and Effective Strategies Book on www.behaviordoctor.org under PIES or Books.
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