Sentences with phrase «punitive approaches has taken»

This misplaced emphasis on punitive approaches has taken a severe toll on educational morale and performance.

Not exact matches

While today's parents grew up in a generation where physical discipline might have been the norm, many of them have taken a more «modern» and less punitive approach to discipline, like giving kids time outs.

The school district itself has a history of taking punitive approaches to discipline.

He made this decision based on the fact that the insurer had denied the benefits for six years in order to delay payment to take advantage of the insured's economic vulnerability.5 Moreover, the claims advisor for the defendant took an adversarial approach and did not deal with the claim fairly and in a balanced way.6 As such, the insurer was deemed to have acted in bad faith and the plaintiff was awarded $ 200,000 in punitive damages.