TOPIC: SCHOOL LIFE
Science Teacher Saves Exotic Pet
by Kanya Tsukamoto Forms of School Punishment
by Shawn Lupori
Mr. Troxell is a science teacher at
Livingston American School in Shanghai.
He found and brought a gecko into his
classroom in order to teach his students
more about living organisms in our
environment. He prepared an insect cage
with plenty of soil in it as a habitat. There are many forms and types of
punishment in schools. Some punishments
are completely fair for a student’s certain
action, but sometimes the punishments
can go too far. In most schools there are
common punishments like detention and
suspension. But some other schools still
have corporal punishments.
“I found a gecko outside in the field when
I had a meeting during environmental
science class,” said Mr. Troxell, the
biology and environmental science
teacher at SLAS. SLAS student, Woo-Hyun answered the
question “Would you say that most
punishments today are fair?” by stating, “I
do think so. Students have to be punished
in some way for their bad actions.”
Mr. Troxell started taking care of the
gecko before October break began. He
prepared an insect cage that has plenty
of soil, water, leaves, and small trees in
order to give the gecko a more natural
environment. The gecko usually stays
inside the soil and doesn’t come up, but
it is still alive with enough nutrients. Most schools today have banned and made
corporal punishments illegal. Corporal
punishments are painful and violent ways
of discipline in which the teacher often
hits a student with an object. One of the
most common forms of corporal
punishment is spanking. A few schools in
the world do allow those types of
punishments
in
certain
countries.
Thankfully most schools ban it now.
“I thought a gecko would help my
students in biology and environmental Woo-Hyun stated, ”I would go to the
science class to learn more about life of principal and let her know, because it’s
organisms,” Mr. Troxell asserted.
wrong and illegal.” As an answer to the
question “What would you do if a teacher
As a science teacher, Mr. Troxell started performed a corporal punishment on you?”
feeding a gecko in an insect cage with
plenty of nutrients, so that his students Corporal punishment should completely
can gain more knowledge through vanish from this world and people should
get it out of their heads. We should all just
experiences of having a gecko.
stick with traditional punishments where
no one needs to get hurt.