My tittle proposal

" Leadership qualities of school principals in using merit and demerit system to solve discipline problem"

   Case study : Cluster school USJ Subang Jaya district

The school rules and regulations are prepared with the cooperation of the school disciplinary board and the parent-teacher-association. They are based on the guidelines given by the Ministry of Education.
They serve to guide parents, teachers and students to a standard of discipline which MBSians are proud of. To enhance the standard of discipline further, the school has decided to use E-Discipline a merit-demerit points system developed by the Ministry of Education to manage discipline in the school. The present merit-demerit system that the school has been using all these years is just a simple manual + Ms Excel system. The present merit-demerit points have been modified to reflect the government’s system.

The school endeavors to list the accumulated demerit points of every student at least once a month. Students can then check with the teachers the offenses they have committed and how they can off-set these demerit points, for e.g. undertaking goodwill tasks like clearing the storeroom or cleaning the windows.

Based on the successful result from St Thomas Secondary school Kuching, Sarawak. The principle Peter foo is a good sample principle that have a leadership qualities because success using merit and demerit system. Leadership has been the most significant area of research in education especially principle ship. Hallinger (2005), and Hoy and Miskel (2008) have linked the school effectiveness with the leadership. In absence of leadership goal accomplishment and school effectiveness is never guaranteed.  Report by BERNAMA St Thomas Secondary School is today a role model school and other school authorities, including one from Brunei Darussalam, are coming to the school to learn how it resolved the indiscipline problems of its primary and secondary students. Bernama asked principal Peter Foo and his Senior Assistant (I), Tilai Bala Udan, for the secret of success and the answer is an integrated and systematic discipline system called the "Merit and Demerit Discipline System" (MDDS).

Underpinning the system are the various players responsible for molding or shaping the character of the students, namely, the school administrators, teachers, prefects, class monitors, parents and counselors.

Intervention of these various players, Foo said, is deliberate and structured to optimist paradigm shift in student behavior.

Furthermore, this good leadership become because the principle said  "We have the highest hope for the school, true to its mission statement of 'Aim Higher'. We aspire to be the national benchmark for areas related to discipline, prefect system and counseling department.

"More importantly, we would like to see our students do well in life," he said.