Demerit (school discipline)

A demerit is a point given to a student as a penalty for bad behavior.^[1] Under this once common practice, a student is given a number of merits during the beginning of the school term and a certain number of merits are deducted for every infraction committed.^[2]

Schools use the demerit record within a point-based system to punish misbehavior. After a certain number of demerits are accumulated, the student is given detention, loss of privileges (e.g., being denied field trips and participation in school events), or some other punishment^[3]^[4] based on the seriousness and frequency of the infraction.^[5]

One criticism of demerit systems is that they create bookkeeping problems and can result in students receiving severe punishments for minor infractions.^[6] Another criticism is that older adolescents learn how to manipulate a demerit system.^[7] There are also critics who cite that demerits wear parents down with constant parental meetings and leave students behind due to missed instructional time as a consequence of punishments such as detention and suspension.^[8]

References

^ Rosen, Louis (2005-02-01). School Discipline: Best Practices for Administrators. Corwin Press. ISBN 978-1-4833-6139-0.
^ Rosen, Louis (2005). School Discipline: Best Practices for Administrators, Second Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. p. 38. ISBN 1412913489.
^ "The Demise of the Demerit". Archived from the original on 2020-06-14. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
^ "Riverdale School District - Demerit System". Archived from the original on 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
^ Deakin, Jo; Taylor, Emmeline; Kupchik, Aaron (2018). The Palgrave International Handbook of School Discipline, Surveillance, and Social Control. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 179. ISBN 9783319715582.
^ "School's Demerit System May be Expelled * Panel in Northampton Says Simpler Method Needed to Make Punishment Fit 'Crime.'". 12 February 1997.
^ Louis Rosen. School Discipline: Best Practices for Administrators.
^ Rotberg, Iris C.; Glazer, Joshua L. (2018). Choosing Charters: Better Schools or More Segregation?. New York: Teachers College Press. p. 74. ISBN 9780807759004.

This article relating to education is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] Rosen, Louis (2005-02-01). School Discipline: Best Practices for Administrators. Corwin Press. ISBN 978-1-4833-6139-0.

[2] Rosen, Louis (2005). School Discipline: Best Practices for Administrators, Second Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. p. 38. ISBN 1412913489.

[3] "The Demise of the Demerit". Archived from the original on 2020-06-14. Retrieved 2019-10-10.

[4] "Riverdale School District - Demerit System". Archived from the original on 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2019-10-10.

[5] Deakin, Jo; Taylor, Emmeline; Kupchik, Aaron (2018). The Palgrave International Handbook of School Discipline, Surveillance, and Social Control. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 179. ISBN 9783319715582.

[6] "School's Demerit System May be Expelled * Panel in Northampton Says Simpler Method Needed to Make Punishment Fit 'Crime.'". 12 February 1997.

[7] Louis Rosen. School Discipline: Best Practices for Administrators.

[8] Rotberg, Iris C.; Glazer, Joshua L. (2018). Choosing Charters: Better Schools or More Segregation?. New York: Teachers College Press. p. 74. ISBN 9780807759004.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

Demerit (school discipline)

References

Information related to Demerit (school discipline)

Portal di Ensiklopedia Dunia