Ms. Davis had just finished setting up his classroom for the new school year. This would be her second year teaching at Southern Maryland Elementary School. Last year, she struggled to convince the children to listen to her and cooperate. The current school disciplinary method was different in each class. When a teacher felt he could no longer care for a student, the student was sent to the principal's office. In the event of serious offenses, the student would be suspended or even expelled. She didn't want the same thing to happen this year because she felt it wouldn't help her. She decided to research different disciplinary methods so she could decide which one would work best for her. Many elementary school teachers have the same problem as Ms. Davis. What options are available to teachers who want an effective disciplinary method in their classroom? The most common method of discipline is suspension and expulsion. This is when a child is sent home from school for a specific period of time. This is only used for serious offenses or repeat offenders. Parents and researchers believe that this method does not help the student. Philip J. Leaf is the “director of the Center for Youth Violence Prevention at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at John Hopkins University” (White, 1.B). Leaf agrees that safety is important in schools, but “it is also important to provide troubled youth with the types of supports that will help them stay in school and succeed” (White, 1.B). White says suspensions are not something the school wants to do because they remove the child from a learning environment and do not focus on or address the actual problem the child may be having. help. "And students who are suspended multiple times often lose... middle of paper....../login.Tidwell, Amy, K Brigid Flannery, and Teri Lewis Palmer. "A description of gold standard models of discipline in the elementary classroom "Preventing Academic Failure 48.1 (Fall 2003): 18. ProQuest Education Journals. ProQuest Information and Learning. Coll of Southern Maryland Lib., La Plata, MD. December 3, 2004 http://proquest.umi.com /login. White, Tanika. “Student conduct policy studied; Municipal schools to review discipline code and list of possible sanctions; Some say removing child from class; not solve the problem and may be harmful" Sun [Baltimore, MD.] August 18, 2003, final edition, sec. local: 1.B. ProQuest Education Journals. ProQuest Information and Learning. Coll. by Southern Maryland Lib., La Plata, MD, December 3, 2004 http://proquest.umi.com/login..