| Sumario: | The article focuses on the impact of social class values on school discipline. Discipline permits human beings to live with one another in groups and in communities. The necessity of setting limits upon proper conduct and teaching children to behave as expected leads parents and other persons to discipline each new prospective member of society until he or she acquires a measure of self-discipline, a conscience and an ideal of what one should be like. Social-class influences upon discipline in schools arise out of the fact that each boy or girl entering a classroom comes equipped with his or her own biology, life history so far, and a pattern of conduct shaped by learning experiences in a family of orientation. Most school people are familiar with social-class differences in bringing up children. Through teacher education and in-service activities, many have encountered research findings about variations from one life style to another in child-rearing practices and in expectations about the ways in which boys and girls should behave and respond to school people.
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