Mr Braithwaite’s relationship with his class passed through three stages or phases. Each of which was characterised by a certain type of behaviour by the pupils. It started with the silent treatment, gradually changed to noisy treatment and after drastic intervention by Mr Braithwaite the general conduct of his pupils changed immensely and so entered the third stage.
The second stage or the so called ‘noisy treatment’ of the pupils’ campaign was a gradual change form the first silent tre