School Discipline
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Regarding your Jan. 4 article about the Denver middle school assistant principal who was suspended for being a strict disciplinarian:
I was one of Michigan’s best teachers (1989 Michigan teacher of the year first runner-up), but I retired early because there was little discipline in my building.
When the eighth-grade boys acted like Beavis and Butthead, my principal said it was my problem. When one boy threatened to kill me and another to beat me up, I said, “So long,” because I couldn’t teach.
Without discipline in a school, teachers can’t teach and students can’t learn. Strict teachers and principals should be praised and supported for trying to instill in students the self-control that they should have learned at home.
PATRICIA ROSS
Los Angeles
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