Do students think suspending is a vacation from school? Will students learn from mistakes if all they do is sit at home? Why are students still making the same mistakes? Many schools are suspending students for pointing fingers like guns, but does suspension really work? Many students would rather stay home than go to school anyway. Although students may not learn to the fullest potential by not being suspended, schools should find a different punishment, talk with parents and it causes tension between the students and parents.
The school staff should figure out a different punishment other than suspension. Boston public schools are seeing massive reductions in “crime” in the schools ever since they changed their way of punishment in 2012. The teachers believe that at home suspension just makes the child want to get in trouble just to stay home, instead of attending school. Some people might say the students will still continue to create problems, but if they stay home and get to do whatever they want, then the students will get in trouble more often because they have the freedom to do what they want during the day.
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In falls high school they ran a study. If your child gets in trouble, the parent needs to come to the school and talk about it with whoever was involved. The students will make less mistakes if the parent and the school enforce punishment. The state of LD believes that “We have an epidemic of school suspensions, and it’s hurting kids, and all that missed academic time takes a toll on kids.” Some people may say that if both the school and parents enforce punishment, it will upset the student, but if they both enforce a punishment, then the student will not think it is fun and not want to get in trouble on purpose to get a break from
They help keep schools and students safe and provide a positive learning environment. This has idea has just been taken too far by school administrators (Wison, 2014). We live in a society where more and more rights have been given to juveniles which have also back fired on us. In days past schools could hand out discipline as well as parents, which in turn could put an end to minor behaviors, where now they are often allowed to advance into things worse, where school administrators see no other choice but to suspend and expel (Wison, 2014). Likewise, we cannot be suspending and expelling students at the drop of a hat because what they did may fall into a gray area, yes there are times when it is needed, but school administrators need to take the time to step back and look at the situation and stop overreacting (Wison, 2014). Suspension and expulsion results in missed classroom time, causing some students to fall so far behind they stop caring about the school work and drop out. Other students are being forced into the criminal justice system ending up with records that can haunt them for life. Eliminating the school-to-prison pipeline will allow these students who are likely to fall into its trap to be able to have a change at a successful life (Wison,
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
Schools inevitably must deal with disciplinary action when it comes to misconduct in students. However, at what point should the courts and law enforcement intervene? “Zero tolerance” policies started as a trend in the school setting during the 1990s in “response to the widespread perception that juvenile violence was increasing and school officials needed to take desperate measures to address the problem” (Aull 2012:182-183). However, national statistics indicated a decrease in juvenile’s share of crime during the influx of zero tolerance policies in schools (National Crime Justice Reference Service 2005).
Are teachers enforcing discipline mechanisms in a healthy way for children? Researchers would answer no to this question because of one major factor: removing recess from a child’s school day. In Jessica Lahey’s article, “Students Who Lose Recess Are the Ones Who Need It Most”, she states that “schools continue to take away recess privileges as a penalty for academic or behavioral transgressions”. Many teachers follow this procedure because they assume that they are teaching the child how to act with appropriate behaviors. However, it is a proven fact that eliminating a student’s recess results in a negative outcome. Therefore, recess should not be removed from a child’s school day because this recreation plays a role in their physical health,
Yell, M.L., & Rozalski, M.E. (2008). The impact of legislation and litigation on discipline and student behavior in the classroom. Preventing School Failure, 52(3), 7-16.
In all grades of education, from kindergarten to college, there is a form of discipline known as a zero tolerance policy. While the exact wording is different from school to school, basically a zero tolerance policy means that a student is immediately suspended, asked to attend an alternative school, or expelled if they are suspected or caught doing certain things. These policies are in place to hopefully deter students from doing drugs or being violent, but the ethics behind them are questionable. Some research has shown that these policies may not even work, and other forms of discipline would be better suited to help students. The three main activities that result in the zero tolerance policy are being caught with drugs or alcohol, being caught with a weapon, and bullying.
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).
The increase in school shootings and violence by kids inside their own places of learning shows the validity of the studies. Schools are looking for a more positive way to enforce discipline. Suspension and expulsion are proving to be a far less effective way of invoking discipline for juveniles. Time away from school results in kids having more free time on their hands with nothing constructive or educational to do. This causes the juveniles to involve themselves in criminal activities that usually begin petty, but after time the offenses increase in magnitude.
Firstly, a student was suspended over literally nothing. For example, Allen Abel, author for Calgary Herald, shares that a second grader was suspended because his vice principal thought he bit his Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun, when in reality it was supposed to be a mountain (Abel). Thus, students do not even need proof in order to be suspended. Secondly, another student was suspended for an absurd reason. The New York Times reported that a girl was suspended because it was her birthday and she brought a cake, along with a knife to cut the cake.
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.
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
Why School Suspensions Don’t Work Why do we have suspensions of they don’t work? Do students learn anything if they are given suspensions? Do students learn hows to fix their behavior during suspensions? With some students, suspensions are just a chance to stay home and relax. When students are suspended at least once they have a higher chance of eventually dropping out of school.
By keeping the students within the school they are still able to be monitored to ensure that they are still getting their work done and keeping up with the class. Also, by having them out of the class, the environment becomes more learning friendly to the students who do not cause trouble. According to Claiborne Winborne, a writer for Educational Leadership, “Keeping suspended students at school – but isolated from other students - makes more sense and is more effective than giving them a ‘vacation’ away from school.” (King William County, 466)
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.
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