Is punishing the entire class for the transgressions of a few fair? Is it effective?
My opinion is that the entire class isn't the problem. When you punish an entire class for something most of the people you are punishing are probably innocent. It's really not fair to those who aren't the ones causing the trouble. If you punish innocent people there should probably be a bit of guilt as a feeling. As for effectiveness I believe it will be effective to a certain extent. No matter what there will always be a few people who won't stop just because that's the way they are. Then again you may cause them to stop. There's also the people who will just get more frustrated by being punished and that normally makes things worse.
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I agree with everything you said... but I've found that punishing everyone in a "good" class often works better than punishing just a few.
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