Time to Stop Suspending Students
Isn’t it time to stop stop suspending, and to start approaching the situation with the student and figuring the problem out. Suspending students has been around for centuries, it has been a schools way of punishing students by kicking them out of the school for a few days, the reason schools throughout the country do this is because it it cost the school nothing. Though suspension gets rid of the person causing problems it is ineffective for the student and for their future career. Schools should stop suspending students because suspending only fixes the problem temporarily and doesn’t really discipline the student. The reasons why we need to get rid of suspending is because, suspending doesn’t
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Suspending students has been a regular for schools to do, but suspending does not help the student. What school need to start doing is to sit the student down and talk with them about their behavior and how they can correct it without any repercussions. Though some might say that it is a waste of time to sit down with the student, students that are talk to by a teacher or a principal often don’t get in trouble after that.
Student use Suspension to get out of school. Let's face it, most kids dislike having to wake up early and go to school, kids would much rather get up when they feel like it and do whatever they want, and suspension is one way of getting out of school without getting in trouble. Some people might say that when a student gets suspended their parents will ground them or punish them, but some parents genuinely don’t care if their child does something bad.
Students don’t really feel guilt for what they did or get punished by the school when they get suspended. Schools usually just suspend a student for what they did no questions asked, but by talking to them and making them feel guilty for what they did makes them not want to do it again. Although some people might say it is cruel to make student feel guilty, guilt is a good thing. Guilt makes a person realize that they did something
A new policy is needed and most certainly should start out with holding schools to handle their own discipline situations, rather than relying on school security and police (Wilson, 2014). School administrators must be able to differentiate between what is a true discipline situation and when a student simply made a mistake. The rate of school suspensions have skyrocketed over the last thirty years from 1.7 million nationwide to 3.1 million and growing today (ACLU, n.d.). Each school needs to create policies of when to get school security involved and what the school’s security job involves. Unless there is a true threat to the safety of the school and/or its student’s law enforcement should never be called (Wison, 2014). The instinct to dial 911 at every infraction has to stop. Furthermore the schools must develop a gender and racial fairness; black children should not be receiving harsher punishments for similar infractions of white students (Wilson,
Now its been 2 months since my suspension and I’m back now from my punishment. Tardiest have been the worst rule at Merced High School. I still think that the tardy policy is a ridicules rules there are. There is no way that someone is going to be on he or she’s desk when the bell rings, I’m saying this from experience. I haven’t been just shot on the ear, I’ve been shot on my arm, attacked by a bear, and electrocuted by the power lines. What kind of school would be doing this to their students and the future of America this not the way to be teach...
Students’ rights in schools are limited or just taken away. Kids are forced to do whatever the officials at their school, either the principal or the teachers, tell the students to do. One of the main right that gets taken away or limited is students’ first amendment rights, which is the freedom of expression. Students can gets suspended by just doing things the staff at the school does not like, including saying things that they don 't like or supporting a religion that the school does not support. Also, if something is said about the school or the people attending the school is said on social media that student can also get in a lot of trouble. Students should be able to have more first amendment
The United States made a threat to the Kingdom of Hawaii that they would overthrow the kingdom. The overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii began with a threat against Queen Liliuokalani on January 17, 1893 on the island of Oahu, by foreign residents residing in Honolulu, mostly United States citizens, and subjects of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The United States planned to overthrow Hawaii to make it the 50th state of America. Thousands of soldiers stood guard in front of Iolani Palace to make a statement to the queen by showing the power of their army. The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was unjustified because Queen Lili’uokalani was treated very unfairly during her reign and the Committee of Public Safety tried to make her reign short and surrender the kingdom to the
Suspended children are missing out on valuable school time. These children often miss out on important exams and assignments. “Many of these children are missing out on the education their schools are providing, and they are learning far worse lessons away from those schools” (Henault 548).
Is suspension or ejection excessively great? Numerous vibe these disciplines are excessively cruel and negative, making it impossible to an understudy 's future. The understudy pioneer of Generation Y remarks on the impacts of suspension and ejection, "You don 't learn. You fall behind. You get a negative state of mind about school" (Della Piana, Gordon, Keleher 2001). It is unexpected that educators could be harming the fate of their understudies when offering them some assistance with being their actual objective. This is the reason so much thought goes into discipline strategies.
Suspending students from school sometimes is not the best thing for them. They sometimes need counseling instead. When the school sees an issue with a student it should be addressed right then, instead of waiting to see if anything else comes from it. But not only should schools keep an eye on the students but outsiders also. The best way to do this is through good security measures. Mass Media can cause people to want to follow in others footsteps and this can be an issue for future problems. Is there ever going to be an end to school violence? Probably not but we can do what we can to decrease the occurrences.
Could you conceptualize how much mental damage is done to the elementary school student? Children are beginning to learn the concepts of all the rules and distinguishing what is appropriate and what is not, yet there are policies set up to where the child has no room for mistakes and to learn from them. There are various ways of disciplining a child that does not involve suspension nor does it involve arresting them. Students are being mentally and emotionally impaired by the school-to-prison pipeline. With all that has been said, this is only the beginning of the long list of problems with the zero-tolerance policy. How early this trend of “suspensions” begin could also affect students. According to an article, nearly 48 percent of African American children are suspended more than once while in preschool (justicepolicy.org). Suspension in preschool for one should not even be a part of their disciplinary action. Secondly, America has totally diminished the whole purpose of the
These kids don’t misbehave in the classroom for no reason. They are probably releasing those emotions that are bottled up from them at home in school. Not coming from a stable background can have quite the effect on trying to learn in a classroom. The problems that need to be fixed are trying to make schools feel more like a “safe haven” rather than a prison. Afterschool programs need to be put into place, to allow kids to stay at school for long so they don’t get involved in street life, or so they can just not have to deal with the outside problems of the world for a little bit longer. Also, school need to change. They need to try and make learning more fun, and more integrated with the children they are teaching. An easy an example of this is teaching these kids about their history, so they have many people to look up to besides just Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks. Only teaching black and Latino kids about people that don’t even look like them or go through anything they have gone through, makes them bored and uneager to learn. Also, more rewards in to be into place to make kids feel more welcomed and wanting to do good in class. Even though it may seem out of the ordinary for some, suspension needs to stop. Allowing these kids to take a break from somewhere they already don’t want to be is ushering them towards a life of hating school. Suspension not only hurt the school district but also hurt the
The argument in favor only discusses the results within the school community, however, the problem lies also in the community the students live in, both their school and community environments have a great impact on their lives. While it would be better to have both environments working to produce the best individuals; even if the students home communities are not ideal today, these individuals are the future of the community and they are able to reform it. In the argument opposing zero tolerance it is stated that the crime increased within the communities neighboring the schools. I believe that suspension, expulsion, or reporting a minor student to the authority is a cheap way out and reflects poorly on the school and its faculty. No effort is being made to encourage good behavior and rectify bad behavior; that doesn’t happen with kicking students out of school or handing them over to the authorities. Difficult students should be viewed as the most valuable students, a great effort should be made, to include them within the school and to increase their GPA. A lot of times when young people see that an interest in made in them, their wellbeing, their future, and their education, it causes them to care, they begin to believe in themselves and they begin to work towards proving to
The director of the CSG Justice Center, Michael Thompson said, "Anyone who wants to make students feel safer in school, improve high school graduation rates, and close the achievement gap needs to have a plan to reduce the number of youth who are suspended from school.” (U.S News). Mr. Thompson made this statement with regards to the negative effects that “zero tolerance policies” is having on the public school system. The “zero tolerance policies” were originally a war against drugs, and other major issues that school’s faced in the early 80’s. Now, instead of creating a learning and welcoming atmosphere in schools, the enforcement of “zero tolerance policies” has increased the amounts of students who are suspended and expelled each year.
Zero - tolerance policies has negative effects on those affected. Suspension leads to students falling behind in school. Students aren’t learning and have a higher chance of committing crimes while out of school. Class time is lost and eventually the student may fail their classes. This leads to higher dropout rates. A student with multiple suspensions will think they’re a burden and that teachers and administrators don’t want them at school. Eventually, they won’t want to come back to
By definition, in school suspension is “a program to which a student is assigned because of disruptive behavior for a specific amount of time.” (Effective Program, 156) Many schools that have in school suspension programs have a zero-tolerance policy. This deters bad behavior by having swift and serious consequences for breaking school rules.
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