Does taking kids out of school punish them or make them act out worst? There’s a reason why kids act out. They are most likely having problems in their personal or school lives. Troubled kids need love more than anything. Although, suspension seems like the best route, you should not suspend students that are rebelling because it lowers self-confidence, doesn’t truly punish them, and it creates resentment instead of understanding. Suspension causes self-esteem roadblocks in the young generation. When a student is temporarily kicked out of school it makes them feel unwanted. They feel like people are just trying to throw them away rather than care about why they did what they did. They rebel so that someone will notice their hurt and guide
Schools should leave their old ways and get rid of school suspension because this makes the student feel as though there voice is being heard in the matter. Cindy attends Turner Falls High School , Cindy has gotten herself into trouble because two boys were making racist jokes therefore she felt threatened so she throws two lunch trays at them causing her to be in the restorative justice room.Cindy has the chance to explain her point of view to the teacher without feeling pressured or frightened.One might say that it would be more efficient if
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.
For this week’s reading of “Paul’s Case,” I believe Paul’s case was depression; “It was the old depression exaggerated,” (Cather, page 105.) In the beginning, I knew he was a troubled kid. “He had been suspended a week ago,” (Cather, page 90) most kids don’t get suspended for no reason. The only kids that I know who have been suspended, or expelled, have done some major rule breaking to be able to manage suspension.
Studies have also found a correlation between exclusionary discipline and (1) increased school avoidance, (2) decreased academic engagement, (3) an increased rate of dropouts, (4) increased behavioral problems, and (5) increased involvement with the juvenile justice system. School administrators have the right to want to develop a safe climate for their students and teachers and remove threats from their schools. However, serious threats from students are rare. Nearly 60 percent of the suspensions and expulsions administered in HPS in 2009-2010 were administered for school policy violations—a category that includes things like insubordination, profanity, sleeping in class, and truancy—not serious safety concerns like violence against others or weapons.
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
(d) The study found that being suspended in the 9th grade is common, impacting more than 1 in 4 students, and that suspension in the 9th grade significantly negatively affects students’ high school and post-secondary outcomes. Suspension rates and number of days suspended are disproportionately higher amongst poor, black and special education students.
Originally created as a discipline action of last resort for students who cause unsafe or threatening environment or substantive clear and present danger with threats of violence and are possession of weapons in the school, out of school suspension are now being used to address minor offenses such as disobedience, disrespect, attendance issues, or other general disruptions (Stinchcomb, Bazemore & Riestenberg, 2006). Suspension were used judiciously and cautiously as the impact on the student and the perceptions of that suspension by the community was understood to be socially debilitating and cast the student and the family in a bad light (Advancement Project, 2015). It was not until the move towards school reforms in the
than the other students for up to sixty days and they are required to meet with the
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
There is a fine line between dangerous threats that need to be addressed, and simple immaturity. Many of the incidents that children are enacting in school seem to be misunderstood by faculty and administrators as seriously dangerous issues when in fact they are nothing but immaturity and stubbornness transpired by children being children. Dr. Lawrence T. Kajs states “There is a need for educational reform of zero tolerance policies in school disciplinary management procedures” (Kajs). Kids get angry and jealous, and therefore start fights for unnecessary reasons. That is just part of growing up and the hormones that conjure up in their bodies is not something that is easy to control. Although, that doesn’t mean that they should be expelled from school for minor offenses, especially if no one is hurt in an incident. “Zero tolerance discipline policies, harsh sentencing laws, and the gentrification of color have devastating effects for the
Physical tactics and restraints with jail like disciplinary makes up for future incarceration. Pushing students for the better is different from punishing them till it's felt they will get better. Schools are not fairly punishing students but depriving them of
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).
A lot of kids and even adults aren't maturing in a healthy way in fact many people aren't maturing at all. Maturity is when a person can deal with things on there own, handle relationships emotionally and physically, and be able to communicate healthy. Maturity, is something everyone goes through many kids go through it in their teen years. In the world we live in that statement has changed. Kids are starting to mature a lot quicker because of all the new gadgets we have now days. While this seems pretty great, could it actually be worse for kids? Kids these days know almost everything about cyberspace, because cells in their body disconnect with brain cells, and kids are being exposed to technology at such a young age.
many occasions when student is suspended from school there is a less likely chance that
Does it really work? How is this effective? What's the point in it? Schools suspend students without letting them give an explanation for their actions. Some suspensions contribute to students who will eventually decide to drop out. Suspensions don’t help but can lead to bad things for the student. Educators shouldn’t suspend students without getting an explanation of the whole situation. Children will not take responsibility for their actions and continue to have disciplinary issues, miss their assignments and do not take responsibility for their conduct, and most schools don’t even let students explain why took action in the situation.