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In the United States, headmasters and teachers discipline(惩戒) students in several ways. The teacher often writes or calls the student’s parents. Sometimes students have to stay atfor an extra hour. If a student behaves , the headmaster can suspend(勒令……休学) the student. The student cannot come to school for one, two, or three days. Sometimes, when the headmaster suspends some students, they are . “A three-day vacation!” they thought.
Mr Lazares, a headmaster, didn’t like to suspend students. When the boy who was not behaving well in class was sent to his , Mr. Lazares telephoned the boy’s parents. “If you come to school with your son, I won’t stop him having classes,” he said. The boy’s father came to school and went with his son to every . Other students stared at the boy and his father. The boy was embarrassed. After that, he behaved better. He didn’t want his father to come to school . Other students behaved better, too. They thought, “I don’t want my to come to school!”
That year, about 60 parents came to school with children who didn’t behave well. The next year, parents had to come to school. The students were behaving better.