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  1. Jan 2021
    1. At one school, the hallways are lined with lists of students who have been given detention. At another school, teachers write students’ names on the classroom board to track misbehavior, or use color-coded stickers as a scoring system—red for bad behavior, blue for good.

      To me this is totally uncalled for and it upset me when I read it. You should never publicly embarrass students in my opinion to get a point across. This causes a student to feel worthless and it draws negative attention to them, which other students in the class also notice.

    2. “Defining a misbehavior by how it looks tells us nothing about why it occurred and often doesn't help in our behavior-change efforts,” the researchers explain.

      When a student is misbehaving, but you don't know why and you just continue on without figuring it out, then that behavior will reoccur. It is definitely true that if you do not get to the root of the issue it won't be solved. This makes sense because it's like any other problem in life.