Letters: Why student behavior matters
Re “Rule on defiant students revised,” May 15
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s ban on student suspensions for “willful defiance” reminded me of when I was observing class as a requirement for my teaching credential roughly 40 years ago.
The teacher I was observing sent a defiant student out of the room. Not having had a classroom of my own yet, I still believed everything I had been told in my teacher training classes.
After class, I questioned the instructor, noting that the student sent out of the classroom wasn’t learning anything. Her reply: “Yes, but the rest of my students are.”
My question was off-base. The student was learning that there are consequences.
Doreen Lorand
Downey
Re “Classroom breakfasts preserved,” May 15
Why don’t schoolchildren have breakfast at home before they leave for school, and carry a paper bag with a sandwich and a small drink for lunch? It worked fine when I went
to school 75 years ago in Scandinavia.
Albert Jakobsen
Arcadia
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