School Suspensions: Pros, And Ways Improve

(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.

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

I’m sorry I was not able to respond until now, but I wanted to spend some time reflecting on the policy, and think of the implications the different policies presented would have. I have some concerns about the late work policy with the suspension. While I am frustrated with the amount of late work, I am concerned about the message we would be sending to the students if they do not turn in their assignments on time and have to serve a suspension.

Sometimes, the SROs programs have negative impacts on student’s life. Before, student misconduct was held by the teachers, but now it is controlled by the law enforcement in school (Beger 2002). For example, “five students were suspended and charged with crime for tossing peanuts at each other on a school bus” (Beger 2002:123). Schools have accepted the strict and high-security measures to protect students, but would result in diminishing the rights of students (Beger 2002). Students are searched without suspicion, especially the minority communities (Beger 2002). The unreasonable searches diminish the rights of students, which protect them from unreasonable search under the Charter of Rights and Freedom. It is clear that police in schools may impact negatively if the police officers conduct an unreasonable search based on class, racism, and gender. The result of zero tolerance in school leads more students’ school-to-prison pipeline, which results in more youth in prison. The zero-tolerance policy accepted in school to expel any students who involved in any illegal or misconduct behavior (Beger 2002). However, if the students feel that the police in schools and rules of school are fair and just, then eventually students will follow the rules and provide safer school surroundings (Beger 2002:127). Because the main reason of SRO is to prevent the drug issue, violence, shooting, threat, and maintaining law in school.

Do administrators of schools every see the child's? Does suspension increase dropout rates? Is there ever a since of justice for the child? Since schools first came to be they have always suspended students without questioning or reasoning in a comfortable environment.Although school suspension is way for the child to be isolated and think about what they have done, schools should get rid of school suspension because this makes the student feel as though there voice is being heard in the matter, since the student is in a more safe and cozy environment the student will reveal what happened, this will prevent higher dropout and school suspension rates.

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

One of the causes for this problem is the zero tolerance policy in public schools. Since this rule was first started in the 1990’s it has lead to higher amounts of students being suspended from school. According to the US department of education the number of students suspended from school since 1974 went from 1.7 million to

Thousands of students each year worry about whether or not they will get into college and a suspension will most likely harm those chances. Suspension gets put on a student’s permanent disciplinary record and will follow him to every school he goes. Honors students can also become victims of strict zero-tolerance policies, even for minor infractions. A mark of bad conduct can easily mar a perfect GPA or test score. Everything a student has worked for can go to waste in the blink of an eye with a suspension slip. At the Sojourner Truth Academy in New Orleans, school officials suspended a group of teenage girls for singing too loudly in the cafeteria (Carr). The November 2011 incident left seniors wondering why they could not have received a lesser punishment like detention. Students are learning their lessons of misbehaving at too high a price. They gain an infamous record and lose valuable class time. Some schools do not allow suspended students to make up the work they missed, and students will go on without the grade and without learning the material. However, not all students view suspension as a bad thing, believing it to be a glorified extra school holiday. Children can slack off and grades begin to drop with more suspensions. If zero-tolerance policies are supposed to help and protect a student, then they are not working. These strict guidelines are not helping students be

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).

Firstly, negligence on the schools part following duty, breach of duty, causation, and injury. The school district has in place a set of procedures that mandate a letter home and a phone call to the parents. In this case, only a letter of the suspension was given to go home with the student, which was then thrown away. This is pure incompetency on the part of the staff to fulfill their duty to properly inform the parents of

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

First and foremost suspension kills a student's GPA and i know this from personal experience the average suspension time is five days if the student has seven classes, then that's thirty five assignments that cannot be turned in or made up the average student who is suspended sees their grades drop as much as 3 letter grades which

I agree with your viewpoint. I don't think children always know what they are doing since they're just playing most of the time. They need to receive help rather than have the principal suspend them because how are they going to know why what they did was wrong by getting suspended. It will help them think about it, but they won't fully understand why it's not acceptable.

Towards the end of my 2015 year I was suspended from school. How being suspended from school effected at my school activities & relationships with others is that I wasn't in able to get the same kind of help that kids in school were able to get because i was home, as well as me not being able to play football for my high school team until I was able to return later that year. When I returned to school it was a shaky start for me because I had to catch up with everything in all of my classes in order to pass. Being raised in a family where failure is not an option I had to take full advantage of extra credit work and after school tutoring which meant I had and sacrifice hanging out with friends and other pleasures to get my grades where they

Wilton LadnerMr. ArmstrongENG 1123-0328 September 2017Weed Me AloneIn the evolving world of sports, there are some professional athletes claiming marijuana is a miracle drug, which allows them to stay in their respective sports longer and to play through pain. With some amateur athletes using marijuana in college and even in high school, questions are further raised about suspensions if an athlete is caught using marijuana. The legalization of marijuana in many states has advocates and critics debating whether student-athletes should be suspended when they test positive for the drug, therefore, a compromise is needed to bring about an idea on which both parties can agree upon.In the United States, marijuana is nationally recognized as an illegal drug. Student-athletes are therefore subject to being drug tested in high schools and colleges for this and other drugs. The result of a positive test for marijuana is suspension ranging from a game to playing the sport permanently. With marijuana being legal in some states, athletes are able to use it legally, yet they are suspended for abusing the drug against school policy. Some sports participants suggest that marijuana can be beneficial in athletic performance and is therefore subject to suspension as it leads to a superior performance over those that do not have access to it. Others