So there's no way to decrease the number of write-ups which is
to say there's no way to get kids in line? I'm not criticizing,
I'm just musing. You believe because your school is getting
bigger that the number of write-ups has to get bigger too.

Which says that for every school, there's got to be a certain
fixed number of write-ups. For every city, there's got to be
certain number of car accidents? There's no way to decrease that
number.

Kind of hopeless but what are your administrators doing to
decrease the write-ups? Have they advocated some different
behavioral approach that's supposed to improve behavior? Or they
just don't want to be bothered by the paper work coming across
their desk?
>
> We have a set policy of having to contact parents before we
> write up a kid or giving a zero for cheating, so I had to
> call. The result I want was: to tell the parent, get off the
> phone, and be able to fill out the "parent contacted" box of
> the write-up. :)
>
> (It's always a lot of fun when a kid refuses to go to a lunch
> detention over something minor and so I have to write them up
> and contact parents and then the parents yell at me because
> the kid is in trouble stemming from chewing gum or some small
> infraction, but the reason for the write up is defiance. I
> swear the only reason why they make us call ahead of time is
> to try to encourage us not to write kids up. Not only is it a
> time suck for the APs, our campuses make goals each year for
> decreasing write-ups even though we are a growing campus and
> each year get bigger!)
>
>
>
> On 11/02/09, sb wrote:
>> In the past I've had some not so supportive parents when
>> it came to cheating. Some of it is obvious "my kid is
>> perfect" syndrome where I'm tole "he has never been
>> accussed of cheating before!" (I've never been acussed of
>> murder before, but if I kiled someone I don't think a jury
>> would buy that as a defense...)
>>
>> any tips on how to say this in a way that gets parents to
>> support you?

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