{"id":1244,"date":"2012-05-02T19:01:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T19:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2012-05-02T19:01:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T19:01:17","slug":"before-the-words-namby-pamby-weenie-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Before the words \u201cnamby-pamby\u201d, \u201cweenie\u201d, or \u201cnot the way they did things in my day\u201d start flowing across your lips, take a look at these numbers:<\/p>\n<p>2009-2010 (Before new approach)<\/p>\n<p>798 suspensions (days students were out of school)<br \/>\n50 expulsions<br \/>\n600 written referrals<br \/>\n2010-2011 (After new approach)<\/p>\n<p>135 suspensions (days students were out of school)<br \/>\n30 expulsions<br \/>\n320 written referrals<br \/>\n\u201cIt sounds simple,\u201d says Sporleder about the new approach. \u201cJust by asking kids what\u2019s going on with them, they just started talking. It made a believer out of me right away<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acestoohigh.com\/2012\/04\/23\/lincoln-high-school-in-walla-walla-wa-tries-new-approach-to-school-discipline-expulsions-drop-85\/\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/acestoohigh.com\/2012\/04\/23\/lincoln-high-school-in-walla-walla-wa-tries-new-approach-to-school-discipline-expulsions-drop-85\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/acestoohigh.com\/2012\/04\/23\/lincoln-high-school-in-walla-walla-wa-tries-new-approach-to-school-discipline-expulsions-drop-85\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I WISH EVERY TEACHER IN THE WORLD WOULD READ THIS ARTICLE. AND PARENTS, TOO. AND YOU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/neil-gaiman.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">neil-gaiman<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This makes me both really sad and really hopeful. I hope more schools adopt this. There are some really great people making a difference in education out there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the words \u201cnamby-pamby\u201d, \u201cweenie\u201d, or \u201cnot the way they did things in my day\u201d start flowing across your lips, take a look at these numbers: 2009-2010 (Before new approach) 798 suspensions (days students were out of school) 50 expulsions 600 written referrals 2010-2011 (After new approach) 135 suspensions (days students were out of school) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[874,873,334,876,501,819,875,528],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abuse","tag-discipline","tag-education","tag-fight-or-flight","tag-love","tag-school","tag-shock","tag-support","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}