ABSTRACT
Principal Wexler was sick and tired of hearing the same complaint from a lot of the staff: she was not tough enough with the students. “How will they learn to follow the rules if they think they can get away with it?” “All the touchy-feely stuff sounds good but how about the real world—the police don’t care about how you feel when you break the law.” “You don’t know what these kids need.” To many staff members, these phrases represented indisputable truths that were the foundation of school discipline.
