A LESSON IN GOOD TEACHING.Byline: Sue Carroll IN the namby-pamby world of education it's refreshing to learn that Ridgewood School in Doncaster enforces a strict zero tolerance policy zero tolerance policy Substance abuse A stance taken by US government, that any type of drug abuse is punishable by incarceration. See Correctional facility, War on Drugs. with pupils. When a child contravenes rules or behaves badly the punishment is swift and forceful. They're sent to a blackpainted isolation room where they must spend a day working alone to reflect on their behaviour and hopefully "strengthen their desire to meet expectations in future". In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently if they don't like being cooped up they know what they can do about it. Draconian, perhaps, but it works. Few kids repeat their misdemeanours and surprisingly Ofsted inspectors approve of the scheme. So far so good. But it only takes one spanner to mess up the works and predictably it's been hurled by a disgruntled parent, Andrew Widdowson, who refuses to let his son Kieran be subjected to a day in a "cell" as punishment for helping to let down the tyres of another boy's bike. "It's like something out of Guantanamo Bay Noun 1. Guantanamo Bay - an inlet of the Caribbean Sea; a United States naval station was established on the bay in 1903 bay, embayment - an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf ," he says of the isolation rooms. Yes, Mr Widdowson... and the problem is? |
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