Being Suspended From School

It was just a big misunderstanding. The teasing had been going on for months, but you tried to hold in your anger as best as possible. When they decided to come up to you again, you were already having a bad day. It felt like you were a ticking time bomb about to explode and each word they said to you was making the timer count down faster. Once you finally blew up, you lost control of yourself because the anger was clouding your mind. It wasn’t all your fault, but all the blame was put on you and the others got away with it. A substantial amount of schools have been using the practice of suspension to punish the student who has misbehaved or violated the schools rules. Suspension hasn’t been showing much positive outcomes on the students who got it. Although some cases are that students are threatening deadly outcomes with their behavior, all the others are simples complications that can be dealt with peacefully and if held correctly, the problem won’t come up again. If schools are quick to suspend anyone even if it’s a small infraction, they are most likely to drop out of school, keep

I had and till this day have maintained a perfect clean discipline record. My priority was always school until i started High School. High School has been rough for me, not because of the kids or people in my school but because of life situations that have surpassed my life . I remember waking up in the mornings ready to learn but concentration was nearly impossible for me, especially in certain classes like science and mathematics. I have always been the girl who no matter what the situation is has maintained a smile and a positive attitude towards things. No one knew what was going on inside of me but i did because it had reflected in those classes in which all my concentration was necessary. I was confused and didn't know how to react to what was happening to me, i was scared to tell my parents and my desperation was just too much. Sophomore year continued the same until i joined my schools youth court program of which till this day i am a founding volunteer member. Youth court is a program that involved training youth like me to represent , defend and prosecute peers who have been

I had to shape up and start doing my work on time so I can get a good average for the end of semester. My discipline at school has changed a lot to because of football. I used to have bad behavior in the beginning of the semester because I did not think high school cared, but they do if not they will tell my coach. I also would never wear a school shirt because I do not like wearing school shirts. Until the day I walked into reading class my teacher saw me without a school shirt and she took me to the principal

My academics were affected because I had to teach myself all of my lessons and study on my own. When I was finally able to come back to school I only had a week to take 8 tests and 5 final exams. My grades fell slightly due to being out for so long, and my grade point average suffered. I have always had good grades and wanted to go to college. When my grade point average dropped, that was a wakeup call. During my senior year I have had to go above and beyond to bring my grade point average back up

My grades were going down beacuse I always got home late from practice. I was so occupied with baseball that I never focused at school. “How can you play if you can’t focus during scool.” This time, my dad said it in a depressed way while walking out of my room. He got tired of raising hs voice. I looked at myself in the mirror and promised to fix myself, day by day, to become an example of being a student athlete. The following day, I took a lot of notes, asked questions, worked with my teachers after school when I needed help, and I never fell asleep before completing all of my homework. Things immediately picked up with my grades and baseball. I still carry out these habits until now. With all the hardships that I have been going throughout my highschool career, my work ethic is still strong. I continue my endeavors to become a star student and an outstanding baseball player, even if my schedule is full. As people had brought me down in the past, I am now grateful of their opinions. I was able to stop slacking on what’s important. I learned that life has given me obstacles so that I would be the prime example of what I promised myself to

I was out of place, a quiet girl whose clothing was obviously not fashionable, lucky if she had a bag lunch, and no reason to be confident. I was picked on relentlessly by others who recognized an easy target. My chaotic home life was never conducive to good grades, or school for that matter. No one I knew was a role model and no one volunteered to step up to be one. With no social life and a toxic home life, my grades plummeted before they had a chance to climb.

Schools have become correctional facilities where instructors closely monitor and attend to behaviors. No longer are they a safe place where troubled students can find peace and acceptance. Instead, students are at the mercy of the rules and the people who govern them. Some scholarly institutions have established zero-tolerance policies to correct what they deem intolerable student behaviors. Teachers have the authority to suspend students for consequential incidences such violence or bullying but also for the simple act of having a butter knife at lunch or talking back. Zero-tolerance policies often lead to severe consequences that do not take into consideration the circumstances in a situation and provide absolutely no benefit to the offending

Suspensions hurt children by lowering academic achievement as well as widening the racial achievement gap between African American students and their peers. This is a growing topic across the country. Schools suspend students at a large cost to society as a whole. Every time a student is suspended for non- violent infractions they are being denied a learning opportunity (Townsend, 2000). It is the duty of educators to ensure that this does not happen. Suspensions can lower self- esteem, cause students to lose interest in school and drop out, and prevent students from participating in school sports, or clubs and many other negative scenarios. The goal of this report is to open educators’ eyes about the negative effects of suspensions on school children. It is said that, “Out-of-school suspensions is one of the most widely used disciplinary practices in American schools, with more than 3.3 million students suspended each year (Lee, Cornell, Gregory, & Fan, 2011, p. 166).

I still had some family problems involving my brother and some wrong choices but I was more used to it as it was the same thing as the year before and it didn’t really affect me anymore and I just went on with school and sports. I had some problems in the start of the year with science but I slowly got better and raised my grade to a proficient. I once again played many sports and balanced my grades to the best of my ability, really only having trouble in music class. I got through 7th grade much easier than I did in 6th and enjoyed it way more. Sports, once again didn’t go too good on the team side of things, but my skill and playing time increased in football, volleyball, and softball. I kept around the same amount of minutes in basketball as years before, starting mostly at SG, sometimes PG, and hardly ever but sometimes playing

Why tell someone they are suspended when that is exactly what they want? Certain studies in 2013 and 2014 illustrated that 7 out of 10 students being suspended actually wanted to be at home. While some may argue that students are taking a few days to reflect and contemplating for what he or she may have done. Students are not learning anything by staying at home. They are comprehending information by going to school.

In 2011, I graduated from middle school as a top ten percentage students, and started four years of high school at Westbury Junior High. At Westbury Junior High, I did not get the amount of supports as in middle school, so I had to take care of everything by myself without any advising from a counselor. I got bullied several times in high school because of my race, but I kept them in secret and focused on academic life only. I distracted myself from those negativities comments from others ;organized my times to study at home and school, and completed homework before due date. Within a month, I got in honor rolls and received high scores in class.

I would address Chesterfield County Public School board about the discipline process related to out of school suspension in high school and in middle school . It has been brought to my attention that when a student get into an altercation in high school they are suspended from school for ten days no exception to the rule. In middle school, suspension days can range from three to ten days. Therefore students are at home with no supervision. This gives the students an abundance of time to be on social media to share and discussing what happen during the fight. Instead of learning.

The zero tolerance policy has no place in the school system because it has damaged students academically by being directly related to the dropout rate, discriminating against the minority groups, and stripping away students right to privacy and speech. As shown in this article, many students have been affected by this policy. The zero tolerance policy neglects to address the students who are struggling in school. If a student is suspended from school, their is a likely chance he or she will not receive academic help after the fact. This may cause students to become unmotivated and dropout. Furthermore, many of the other complaints about this policy is it is unfair to the minority groups and the students with learning disabilities because they

Every student hates the sound of keys smacking against each other, the walkie-talkie screeching, and the principal’s heels hitting against the floor while she is walking down the hall. This was the sound I heard before getting in trouble. I got suspended for ten days for a verbal altercation. While suspended, I had to find a way to keep my grades up. This was really important to me because I never had horrible grades. With good grades, I knew that I could get in my dream school. While I was suspended I emailed all of my teachers begging them to prepare a work packet for me so my grades would not drop. I had to make a hard decision and let go of the many friends that I had. To obtain a new flock of friends I joined the cheerleading squad and

I Makayla Elaine Bunbasi, have been academically suspended from Allegany College of Maryland. I have been suspended due to my academic status falling below the required minimum. I understand that it is important to do well in school and I am willing to put all my focus into my schooling to make sure I do whatever it takes to pass my classes. I know there shouldn’t be any reason for a student to fall behind in school but the past two and a half years of my life have been a struggle. When I was seventeen I made the choice to move to West Virginia to take care of my grandmother since my Pap worked out of town Monday-Friday. Over the past two years I have had to care for my grandmother on my own. Taking her to her appointments, surgeries, and the emergency room at times,