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also seek to make the consequences fair and related to the
disruptive, inappropriate or wrong behaviour, this is not
an easy thing to do. When we are developing consequences
as emm, when we are developing consequences as a start,
when we are developing consequences we use the three rs
test. And we ask ourselves, is the consequence related,
the actual consequence itself, is it related to the behaviour
for which we are connecting the consequence to? So is it
related? For example, the one other occasion I rang my daughters
school in Australia, our daughters school, was when
she was given detention for talking in class, which did
not bother me, she was talking in class, she admitted it,
not that thats a crime, but it was a young teacher
and he felt he was, it was a bit too much talking but he
had said that she had to pick up litter for twenty minutes
and my concern was it was totally unrelated. I mean how
does that bear any relationship to talking in class, so
is it related, is it reasonable? In other words, do we have
a degree of seriousness, where bullying, harassment and
bullying looks like that in consequential moral weight and
litter looks like, sorry talking in class looks like that,
uniform looks like that, lateness, unless its arrogant
lateness looks like that. We have a degree of seriousness,
for example if your consequence is a detention, you and
I dont give out detentions easily, I mean detention
is a fairly, emm, ahh, serious consequence. Not traumatically
but its fairly serious on a continuum of consequences.
I see teachers giving out detentions for the widest range
of behaviours and you just wonder, where in the hell is
currency on that detention process, and I, at high school
in particular, which is where I do most of the mentoring,
we have had to re-visit our detention policy and ask ourselves
do we have a genuine degree of seriousness, so the kids
can see, as much as they can see, a reasonableness in the
consequence of supply.
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