DH> Wonderful!  You mentioned this as your new discipline plan, I'm
 DH> assuming this has been implemented throughout your school.  Do you have
Yes, the whole school is using it.
 DH> the discipline plan as a separate document or is it part of a school
 DH> handbook?  I'd love to have a printed copy of this plan if you wouldn't
It's based on a book by a local family therapist named Ed Ford.  It's
called _Discipline For Home and School_.  A phone number for reaching Ed
is included in one of my other messages to "all."
 DH> mind (via snail mail or fax depending on the size/length of it).  I
 DH> can use it as an example for my college students to illustrate the
 DH> concepts of responsibility and accountability as well as providing it
 DH> to our own school district to consider.
I'll post the "premise" of the program here in another message.
 DH> PRC? I took a few stabs at that one but am not sure what it stands for.
Personal Responsibility Center.
LP>> I suppose when I have a kid & am subjected to the nagging daily &
LP>> all-year round, I, too, will succumb & buy their silence.
 DH> Heeheehee, I took this as somewhat tongue-in-cheek (not sure if you
 DH> intended it that way) but as the father of 4 girls (ages 6-16) I had to
More resigned & realistic than tongue-in-cheek.  I know my limits.
 DH> chuckle when I read this.  There are times when you'd think that mom
 DH> and pops have totally ruined our 16 year old's life and chance for
 DH> social progress by denying (repeatedly) her requests to extend curfew
 DH> and "do what everyone else is doing" :)  (ROTFL--wiping a tear from my
What a mean father. ;^)
 DH> eye) There is some degree of negotiation that happens just to preserve
 DH> your sanity, but it all goes back to letting 'em know early on that
 DH> that nagging and whining is considered inappropriate behavior and won't
 DH> be tolerated. Oops...getting off track here, this is the educator conf,
 DH> not parents! ;)
I am firmly convinced that practicing good parenting skills should be
part of a good teacher's bag o' tricks.
 DH> Oh well, I really would like a cy of your school's discipline
 DH> plan, if you could, my mailing address is:  2114 Broadway,
Shure 'nuff.  Check out the other messages I am posting with this one.
 DH> Fargo ND 58102-5047 or you can fax it to my office at (701)
 DH> 231-2089. Better yet, if it is available on the WWW, that would be
 DH> great too.
I hear Ed Ford has a web site, but I haven't gone looking for it yet.
One of my admin profs knows him well & was supposed to give me the
address, I guess he forgot.  This reminds me to do a search for it.
Leona Payne
... "Uniforms?  But how will everybody see how special I am if I look the 
same?
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