Ms. Davis had just finished setting up her classroom for the new school year. This would have been his second year teaching at Southern Maryland Elementary School. Last year she had trouble getting the kids to listen to her and cooperate. The actual school disciplinary method was different in each class. After a teacher felt he could no longer handle a student, he was sent to the principal's office. For serious crimes the student would be suspended or even expelled. He didn't want the same thing to happen this year because he felt it wasn't helpful. She decided to research different disciplinary methods so she could decide which would work best for her. Many elementary teachers have the same problem as Mrs. Davis. What are the options for teachers who want a successful disciplinary method in their classroom? The most common disciplinary method is suspension and expulsion. This is when a child is sent home from school for a set period of time. This is only used for serious or repeat offenders. Parents and researchers believe that this method does not help the student. Philip J. Leaf is the “director of the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University” (White, 1.B). Leaf agrees that safety is important in schools, but "it is also important to provide troubled youth with the kind of supports that will help them stay in school and graduate successfully" (White, 1.B). White says suspensions are not something the school wants to do because it removes the child from a learning environment and doesn't address or help the real problem the child may have. "And students who are suspended multiple times often lose...... half of paper....../login. Tidwell, Amy, K Brigid Flannery, and Teri Lewis Palmer. "A Description of Role Models of Classroom Discipline elementary." Preventing School Failure 48.1 (Fall 2003): 18. ProQuest Education Journals. ProQuest Information and Learning. Coll of Southern Maryland Lib., La Plata, MD. December 3, 2004 http://proquest.umi.com/login. White, Tanika. “Student Conduct Policy Studied; City schools will have to review the disciplinary code and the list of possible punishments; The use of suspensions was criticized; Some say removing a child from the classroom fails to address the problem and can be harmful." Sun [Baltimore, MD.] August 18, 2003, final edition, local section: 1.B. ProQuest Education Journals. ProQuest Information and Learning. Southern Maryland Lib. Coll., La Plata, MD December 3, 2004 http://proquest.umi.com/login.