Discipline must be an integral part of a school’s Mission Statement

Dear Editor,

Discipline, to my mind, is the forerunner to any form of punishment that is a penalty for disregarding a rule of conduct prescribed by a state.

It follows then that discipline must be an integral part of our school’s Mission Statement and of our parental training programme. James Mainwaring M.A. D. Litt in his book Psychology in the classroom states that “