5. Visits to the principal’s office. Expert teachers tend to use this penalty rarely, but they do use it when the situation warrants.

Some schools require students to be sent to the office for certain offenses, such as fighting. If you tell a student to go to the office and the student refuses, you might call the office saying the student has been sent. Then the student has the choice of either going to the office or facing the principal’s penalty for

“disappearing” on the way.