School Discipline. ERIC Digest, Number 78.

School discipline has two main goals: (1) ensure the safety of staff and students, and (2) create
an environment conducive to learning. Serious student misconduct involving violent or criminal
behavior defeats these goals and often makes headlines in the process. However, the commonest
discipline problems involve noncriminal student behavior

These less dramatic problems may not threaten personal safety, but they still negatively affect the
learning environment. Disruptions interrupt lessons for all students, and disruptive students lose
even more learning time..

It is important to keep the ultimate goal in mind while working to improve school discipline not."
Effective school discipline strategies seek to encourage responsible behavior and to provide all
students with a satisfying school experience as well as to discourage misconduct.

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School discipline is a form of discipline appropriate to the regulation of children and the
maintenance of order in schools.

The term refers to students complying with a code of behavior often known as the school rules.
These rules may, for example, define the expected standards of clothing, timekeeping, social
behaviour and work ethic. The term may also be applied to the punishment that is the
consequence of transgression of the code of behavior. For this reason the usage of school
discipline sometimes means the administration of punishment, rather than behaving within the
school rules. The aim of school discipline is, ostensibly, to create a safe and happy learning
environment in the classroom. In a classroom where a teacher is unable to maintain order and
discipline, students may become unmotivated and distressed, and the climate for learning is
diminished, leading to underachievement.[

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_disciplines