My first reaction to the Cheektogawa student discipline policy is now up at The Faculty Room. Here’s the opening snippet:

Maybe it works. Maybe if we create a detailed enough system of extrinsic motivators and punishments, we can drag kids kicking and screaming to a scholasticism that is missing in many schools. Maybe we have tipped the scales so far toward overindulging the whims and desires of youth culture, that a little law and order — or a lot of it in the case of Cheektowaga Central Middle School – is what’s in order.

Maybe.

But I kept going back to one thought:

I wouldn’t want my child to go there….