Discipline In Schools

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28434, 14 November 1957, Page 3

Discipline In Schools

Sir. —Mr Johnson's comment that the most inadequate teacher needs the most coercive discipline will demonstrate to parents that a strapping teacher is not a good disciplinarian. He also says that fundamentally the inadequate teacher should have the right to bo coercive if this inadequacy demands it. What concerns the adequate parent., however, and there are many of them, is the effect, which the inadequate teacher has upon the adequate child who is strapped for minor things As a father, I suggest that where the adequate parent, is faced with such a situation he should demand, with Mr Johnson's help, that the inadequate teacher either stop being inadequate or be removed to a sphere where his inadequacy will not have the wicked effects it has today in many cases. Mr Johnson’s willingness to give the inadequate teacher the right to coercion may be a good sop to lhe inadequate parent, but it is not good enough for many others. —Yours, etc., WOULD-BE ADEQUATE PARENT. November 13. 1957.