How does discipline and setting boundaries figure in?
Dalida: Teachers and administrators need to use their power and strictness for good. This doesn’t mean letting students walk all over you, but if they combine strictness with some compassion, we’d have a much better relationship. In order for you to run anything, I know, there are times when you have to put your foot down, but when you do it with feeling, you get better results. Shane: There’s got to be a fine line between setting boundaries and expectations, and showing that you care. One of the hardest things for us to deal with is ignorance about our generation and our circumstances. None of us here at Central live in a world where we can just go home, watch cartoons, and wait for our parents to cook us dinner. Our lives are more chaotic than simple. Take detention. Even for me, someone who tries to be the best student I can be, there was a time when my car broke down, there was nothing I could do about it, and when I got to school I was assigned detention. It didn’t matter that my
