Sentence examples for punitive discipline from inspiring English sources

Japanese athletes respond better than their North American counterparts to harsh criticism and punitive discipline.

Research suggests that experiencing overly punitive discipline in school increases the likelihood of a student dropping out of school — a phenomenon known as "school pushout".

Although most of the mass shooters at schools have been White, boys of color have paid the consequences of overreaction and punitive discipline.

In the current study we examine three environmental measures previously reported as heritable maternal negativity (negative behaviours and punitive discipline directed towards the child), paternal negativity and negative life events.

"Zero tolerance started out as a term that was used in combating drug trafficking and it became a term that is now used widely when you're referring to some very punitive school discipline measures.

"Regressive and highly punitive school discipline policies have a tendency to funnel certain youth into a certain direction, and that's the basis of the school-to-prison pipeline".

Stuart Weiss, Los Angeles... To the editor: Some teachers miss (or ignore) one of the most important points: The fight to end punitive school discipline and the school-to-jail track has been a community struggle against educational racism and the disproportionate punishment of black and brown students with suspensions, expulsions and citations or even arrests.

Specifically, fathers tended to have increased anger and be more punitive in disciplining their children [ 15, 19, 20].

Williams's story, Joyce finds, fits a disturbingly common pattern of abuse and neglect in adoptive households, where overwhelmed parents with punitive theories of discipline fall into destructive spirals that are difficult to monitor or regulate.

In schools that use harsher, more punitive more inconsistent discipline, things tend to get worse.

Had it not been for his school's overly punitive approach to discipline, he wouldn't have even been in Sanford that night.