Just want to jump in on the conversation too DS1's school adopts the 123 magic program. Basically the teachers don't have time to deal with 1 or 2 kids that refuse to co-operate or otherwise the time is being taken away from the children that are behaving and wanting to learn (embarrassingly enough my DS1 fell into the naughty child corner) anyway the Deputy Principal one of only two Males teachers at the school decided to adopt this across the whole school, this meant training the teachers as to what the policy was going to be for dealing with all children when there behaviour isn't to an acceptable level. It has been really positive across the whole school because doesn't matter when the kids go up a grade they are still being treated in the same way they were the year before and i must admit a vast improvement with DS1 as well, the phone calls from the school almost stopped. The kids don't automatically get sent out of the room on the 3rd count they go to the back of the class to get them away from the situation for 5 minutes then they come back and then if it happens again they work through the 123 then it's the office, where they deal with normally the Deputy or one of the other teachers that is in the office at the time. They get counselled about what has happened and get to talk about ther bad decisions which kids like to do but the thing the really work on is if a child had a bad day the day before it is never brought back into the classroom the next day, it's always a clean slate for them.