Shaquille

Classroom-management-problem-solvers, take note! We have, at my school, what is called a no-jone zone in which students are prohibited from insulting one another. But for some reason, telling a fourteen-year-old to "just be nice" yeilds... about as much fruit as you would expect. My solution to the mean kids in my 5/6 period class is The Nice Paper. In essence, it is this: when a student insults someone else, the insulter has to write five complete sentences about how he or she admires the insultee.

My favorite so far has been from Shaquille. He wrote, "Chandra has great self-of-steam."

You may be wondering what we are teaching these children.

Apparently... not too much.