Students of color deserve teachers who look like them. But it’s on all of us to ensure kids have what they need to thrive.

Detention can range from missing lunch breaks to more brutal forms, such as writing pointless sentences thousands of times or serving as a teacher’s photocopying assistant after school.

School discipline: writing lines and detention did the trick As Michael Gove is told off by John Bercow, Eleanor Doughty remembers the fear of school teachers and ponders the benefits of writing lines ...