Going Online Keeps Students in Line

Tom Kertscher:

At the same time, a new system for disciplining students also helped reduce the number of Badger Middle School students sent to the dean's office because of misbehavior, said first-year principal Ted Neitzke, 34. But the use of a daily "blog" - an adaptation of e-mails shared among teachers and other staff - was perhaps more important, Neitzke said. He had used the system a year earlier on his previous job as an assistant principal in Sheboygan.

The blog, Neitzke said, is a "positive, proactive communication tool."

The West Bend School Board received annual reports from schools on progress they are making on individual improvement plans. Badger, the larger of West Bend's two middle schools, said reducing behavioral problems was its "greatest achievement" in the school year that just ended.

Posted by Lawrie Kobza at July 6, 2005 9:23 AM
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