Out Of School Suspensions In School

(a) This study examines out-of-school suspensions in the 9th grade and their effect on high school and post-secondary outcomes. This analyses also examines demographic disparities in school suspensions, their relationship to poverty and their contribution to high school graduation and post-secondary attainment gaps.

In the article “School Suspensions: Pros, Cons, and Ways to Improve”, it says a con is that the students don’t receive the days class work and will miss the lessons during class. Hearing someone explain something confusing and complicated will help them remember the correct way. All they get is a written explanation that can get confusing and they will end up doing the work wrong because they couldn’t get the right explanation of what to do. Even though most students do keep up with their work when they get suspensions, others think that it’s like a vacation from school and they don’t do their work on time or don’t do it correctly. The students’ education shouldn’t be affected even if they did break the rules, their lessons and classes are too important to miss that much

Out of school suspensions (OSS) are often enforced with the assumption that students receiving the suspension are less likely to repeat the problem behavior in the future. However, this has been proven to be false. Suspending a student for engaging in a certain behavior does not in fact serve as a deterrent from the behavior but as a deterrent from attending school instead. In actuality, receiving just a single suspension can increase the probability of a student experiencing academic failure, school dropout, and involvement in the juvenile justice system. Knowing this, some educators still believe that for many students, suspension can serve as an effective lesson. One of the greatest concerns that educators and administrators face is the matter of classroom management. It is part of their job to ensure a safe, productive and supportive classroom allowing students to learn and grow to their greatest potential. Though there are several strategies gauged towards managing a classroom, the most severe offences often lead to either in or out of school suspension. Some of the largest concerns faced with out of school suspensions is that they are often ineptly applied, used unfairly against students of color and seemingly ineffective at producing better behavior. Also known as exclusionary discipline, the majority of offenses that led to OSS have not been centered around violence but instead emphasised issues of classroom insubordination and defiance. In some rather extreme cases

With the use of technology comes great responsibility which leads to another key in effective schools which is a whole school behavior policy. Students need to know that if they misbehave there will be consequences. In the article, “Reforming School Discipline” Derek W. Black speaks of the importance of creating a fair behavior policy where suspension is not a key element. In my school there will be a set of universal rules that will be used throughout the whole school. Teachers will not be able to create

Has your child ever been suspended? Ever been friends with a kid who has been supended? If so you most likely know, it has no good affect. Schools have been suspending students seemingly forever, and it makes sense. It’s simple, cheap, and easy, whereas lunch or after-school detention can be problematic and difficult, and alternative options require money the school simply does not want to spend. Although students will not be able to see their friends everyday, and may feel left out from school activities, suspension is an ineffective punishment because students see it as a vacation, it increases dropout rate, and it makes students more hostile, or problematic.

The data is definitive that black students are more likely than white students to experience school discipline and are even more likely to be subjected to arrest by school resource officers during their school careers. The data shows that 20% of all black male students receive an out-of-school suspension, while only 6% of white male students receive out-of-school suspensions (11). Faced with a disproportionately high number of suspensions and expulsions, when compared to white students, many more black students are falling behind in classes and missing valuable learning time. If it is unclear how important it is for students to develop adequate reading skills early on and how excluding students from school through suspensions and expulsions

Like I said before, kids who get suspended get less learning time than others. Overall about 42,237,135 million students that’s over about 72,000 schools

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).

Most high schools have at least 6 classes a day. So being suspended for one to five school days can leave a student with a high work load and very behind their peers. In many classrooms teachers tend to weed out all the “bad kids” in their class that distract those who are trying to learn. Detention leads to suspension and suspension leads to expulsion. In the journal “Suspended Animation: A Legal Perspective of School Discipline and African American Learners in the Shadows of Brown” by Brenda L. Townsend Walker, shows that African American suspension rates are up 15% and they are receiving more office referrals than any other race. As students move up to different grades teachers warn their peers about certain students who gave them problems in the past. So some students do not receive a fair chance and they are written off in the beginning. Christopher J. Ferguson (2012), the author of “Does Suspending Students Work” believes that students don’t believe suspension is a punishment, they see them it as mini

Whenever a student does something mischievous a vast majority of the time they are immediately suspended. However, the student should not be punished immediately. The article “School suspensions don’t work. It’s time for something better” states that a young girl was

Students all over the country face the same “zero tolerance policy” as the students here.Students everywhere have heard about a fellow classmate being suspended for a ridiculous reason.Although suspension gets a student's attention suspension should be abolished in our school systems in order to improve dropout rates, improve student's GPA and improve the behavior of the students overall.

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.

Other negatives include the exclusion of students who have been expelled from the educational opportunities of their peers and thus leading to increased dropouts. She goes on to tell us that there is little evidence to show that suspensions actually improve student behavior (Walker, 2009).

If a student gets suspended, it teaches them to have no respect for authority, such as security guards, teachers, their own principal and even their parents. Thus, for the disrespect of authority, the student ends up getting suspended. Infractions such as pulling something on a teacher and talking back are results of the Zero-Tolerance Policy. Without the policy in place, students will be able to respect authority, learn that cops aren’t bad and realize that their education is important. Alternative education, such as the ‘Innovative Concept Academy’, are in place to teach students, such are in place to teach students with behavioral problems what they are missing from their primary education. Unfortunately, most states don’t have this and

When a student gets suspended it is usually because, a teacher did not want to deal with the problem the student had caused. So instead of handling this problem they kick that student out of school for a few days. If teachers were to actually deal with the problem and find out why the student had caused it then maybe the student would not become a problem again. People who like suspension will say that it helps that child know what they did wrong but, it really does not. Do you think the child goes home, sits and cries about what they did wrong? I doubt it. We do not want to create anymore enemies for the children than they are already going to get so we should not use suspension as a