Sit down and shut up : how discipline can set students free / Cinque Henderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henderson, Cinque, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Henderson, Cinque.

Henderson, Cinque--Biography.

Substitute teachers--United States--Biography.

Substitute teachers.

School discipline--United States.

School discipline.

United States.

At-risk youth--Education--United States.

At-risk youth.

At-risk youth--Education.

Problem youth--Education--United States.

Local Subjects:

Henderson, Cinque--Biography.

Problem youth--Education--United States.

Substitute teachers--United States--Biography.

School discipline--United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 240 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, [2018]

Summary:

"On his first day as a substitute teacher, Cinque Henderson was cursed and yelled at by a class of 11th graders. One kid openly threatened him. Cinque, not wanting trouble, called the hall monitor, who escorted the student to the office. But five minutes later, the office sent him back. He carried a note that simply read, "OK to return to class." That was it: no suspension, no detention, no phone call home, no picking up trash after school, no sidebar conversation with the office to figure out how they could intervene. In the generation since Henderson had gone to public school in a poor black town in the rural South, the world had undergone dramatic change. Sit Down and Shut Up: How Discipline Can Set Children Free, part memoir, part jeremiad, is a passionate and personal analysis of that change, the story of Henderson's single year as substitute teacher in some of America's toughest schools. Henderson found that the culprits for the failures of our worst schools weren't some endless stream of unqualified teachers, but rather the result of population in crisis. He soon came to see that public school classrooms were hothouse laboratories/microcosms--chaotic, teeming, vibrant, tough--of all our nation's most vexing issues of race and class. Beneath the surface, the legacy and stain of race--the price of generational trauma, the cost of fatherlessness, the failures of capitalism, the false promise of meritocracy--played itself out in every single interaction Henderson had. Henderson also found solutions, namely a recommitment to the notion that discipline--emotional, psychological, behavioral and moral--wisely and properly understood, patiently and justly administered--was the only proper route to freedom and opportunity for generations of poor youth"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Kids' rights, or, by all means, vote for that idiot!

Broken windows

Gems, knuckleheads, and assholes

A candid world

Stamped from the beginning

The child is father to the man

Less than zero tolerance

Follow the money

What it means to be distracted

Forget it, Jake.It's Chinatown.

Super sub

Final days

What can we do now?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.

ISBN:

9781250101884

1250101883

OCLC:

1033563856