Weaknesses of The Discipline
- According to Canter, there are only three types of teachers: non assertive, hostile, and assertive; there is no other type of discipline system
- Canter’s work of “research” to create this method has no references or citations listed
- Canter’s research to develop the program was with children with special needs. Canter assumes that the system will work with all students.
- "although the system is woefully short on hard research data to justify some of its contentions, Assertive Discipline has made a positive contribution to literally thousands of teachers and school systems.“
- Rules and consequences are determined by an authority figure and students are told they can choose to obey or not.
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