Behavior charts "work" on kids for whom anything would be effective. It never works with tough kids, and it makes the general behaviors of kids in any classroom worse as time goes on.

Old-fashioned behaviour charts are polarising Queensland school communities, with parents and teachers at loggerheads over whether the practice should still exist in the classroom.

Old-fashioned behaviour charts are polarising Queensland school communities, with parents and teachers at loggerheads over whether the practice should still exist in the classroom.

Old-fashioned behaviour charts are polarising Queensland school communities, with parents and teachers at loggerheads over whether the practice should still exist in the classroom.

Old-fashioned behaviour charts are polarising Queensland school communities, with parents and teachers at loggerheads over whether the practice should still exist in the classroom.

Old-fashioned behaviour charts are polarising Queensland school communities, with parents and teachers at loggerheads over whether the practice should still exist in the classroom.

Key points: A teacher says classroom behaviour has only grown worse over her nearly 50-year career A Senate committee found Australia had some of the worst-behaved classrooms in the world ...