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Children are rude to teachers in school, to the point that is intolerable

Use peer pressure to make students behave.

Similar techniques are used by the military in training. The whole group must depend on each other. One person screws up or is rude, the entire class gets punished. This installs a group mentality, if one messes up the group of peers will come down on them. This social norms of fitting into the structured group can be applied at the classroom level. Students will not be a problem if the whole class is punished for that one student. Eventually, students will not act out in fear of what the other students may think or do.

Contributed by Brad Yost

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on Use peer pressure to make students behave.

This may work for group of younger students it will be rare to find a good result with the older because they will get bullied. For the younger children could be helpful unless they hate the kid who m..
- Tammy Diora

This may work in the armed forces and in many ways reflects the way that armed forces often endorse bullying within their own ranks. There are several reason why this would not work in the classroom...
- Frank Gibson

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