7/28/2010 12:04:28 AM permalink
KWU Posts: 3	I loved the author's idea with making consequences clear and consistent when it comes to peer to peer aggression. I would like to implement the ideas, however one problem I have is the part where students have recess taken away. I work at an Iowa school and the state has mandated a certain number of minutes of physical activity each day. Lunch recess is needed to meet that requirement. The only idea I had was to make it a "solo lunchtime" where they are not allowed to eat with the other students instead of lose recess(es). Any other ideas?
	7/28/2010 10:28:33 AM permalink
Katybate Posts: 15	I too work in a school where recess time is mandated. I get around this sometimes when it is nice enough to have a second recess. This only lasts for ten minutes, but it gives the aggressor time to sit an think about what they did. Solo lunchtime is a great idea. No one wants to eat alone and they will have plenty of time to think about what they did.
	7/29/2010 12:53:30 PM permalink
dkriznik Posts: 6	I teach at a middle school and we do give students lunch detention. I do see this as an alternative to taking away recess, but be careful. Sometimes if a student in our school is given a lunch detention, it is not as much punishment as it should be. For our school (and I'm sure this happens in other schools) lunch detention has a "hidden reward". During lunch detention a student sits with a teacher in order to be supervised, but more often then not, the student and teacher end up having converstaion the whole time. Instead of punishing the student by making them sit alone, they are taking the punishment away by joking around with the student and talking with them the whole time. I think lunch detention is only successful if the teacher is there to only supervise the student and is not able to talk with them.
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