school discipline
Student behavior management
School discipline covers the rules, expectations, and consequences that maintain order in educational settings.
It includes everything from dress codes and attendance policies to punishments for misbehavior: The principal handles school discipline issues.
The term can refer to a school's overall approach to managing student conduct or to specific corrective actions: He received school discipline for fighting.
- detentionTemporary official holding
- warningAlert about danger
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- positive reinforcementStrengthening behavior through rewards
- peer mediationStudent-led dispute resolution
rod · code of conduct · dress code violation · suspension · sent home · principal's office · switch · cane · apology letters · anti-bullying policies · mindfulness practices · scold · parent conference · community service · tardy · time-out · silent lunch · reward systems
- schooling historyhornbooks, one-room schools, schoolmasters, schoolhouses, primers
- educationeducation, schools, teachers, students, learning
- school lawcompulsory education, FERPA, compulsory attendance, student rights, Title IX
- youth rightschild protection, child custody, child labor laws, child support, juvenile justice
- school attendanceattendance, absence, absences, truancy, tardy
- British educationgrammar schools, comprehensive schools, state schools, primary education, secondary education
school disciplinepermissiveness
Tolerance of behavior others forbid
leniency · indulgence · free rein · laxity · non-intervention
school disciplinechaos
Complete disorder and confusion
disorder · anarchy · unruliness · out of control · mayhem
school disciplineunschooling
Self-directed home education
democratic education · progressive education · self-directed learning · open classroom · child-centered education