School takes page from book for new behavioral system
Stuidents earn, lose points as in `Harry Potter` series.
For Creative Learning Academy students, there is no worse feeling than losing your marbles.
"If someone loses a marble or 10 or 20, we're like, `Why did you have to do that? Why did you do something so stupid?"' eighth- grader Nicole Bobbitt said.
Marbles are constantly on the minds of the private school's 65 middle schoolers since the academy adopted a disciplinary method inspired by the popular "Harry Potter" novels written by J.K. Rowling.
"The students relate to `Harry Potter.' So I kept thinking, `Why couldn't we do that? We could have a point system with the students,"' said middle school director and Latin teacher Sally Kelly.
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Posted by rockygirl at April 13, 2004 08:28 AM