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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recall reading in a post earlier this year that the HD Cooke principal was doing this, but was receiving a lot of pushback from the teachers and some parents about it.  I can't remember the details, but people thought it was cruel to lock all the bad kids in one room.  I would say that I would not want to be the teacher assigned to that classroom.[/quote]

I didn't know a dc school tried this. Thanks for the info. Wonder if they're still doing it and how it's going/it went. I agree, I wouldn't want to be the teacher assigned to that classroom, especially after reading what happens in the regular classrooms. I'm not sure how I feel about the program, though. Cruel? I don't think I'd go as far as to say it's cruel. It is meant to be a punishment, after all. As I said, the biggest complaint in the other school is that it's boring. Kids didn't want in-school detention because of that and not seeing their friends in school. It was usually only for 1 or 2 days, though, but I'm sure that's a millennium in a teenager's mind. I'd like to know more about whether or not this was effective at Cooke in decreasing suspensions overall.[/quote]

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