High Point High School is a place where there is a trusting relationship between both students, and teachers in which the both students and teachers feels safe and believes that they are treated fairly and with respect. When it comes to disciplinary actions, we feel providing students with knowledge and skills, motivating some students to be successful in life . In other schools, students are often indiscriminately suspended or expelled, which harm the student education and future. At our school, we don’t want punishment to distract student from learning. Instead, we focus on maintaining a positive environment where disciplinary action aren't biased. In high pointe high school we believe in school suspension allow students to keep learning …show more content…
Before a student is punish the students body have to determine whether the student s is guilty and need to be punish.this provide an environment of review and self-discipline that is consistent, fair, and just. The students in the school get to deceive rather the action of the student is harsh enough to deserve a harsh or a light punishment and how many warring did that student have before they receive their punishment.In the article “What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?” the author Katherine Reynolds Lewis state“ A first-grader whose unruly behavior goes uncorrected can become the fifth-grade with multiple suspensions, the eighth-grader who self-medicates, the high school dropout, and the 17-year-old convict.” Many schools fail to help with a history of acting up in class since elementary school and how later that might be a trouble throughout middle and high school. If we don't have disciplinary action many student who we could have had help would most likely end up in jail because of the way we punish their action instead of letting the peers review their action to determine what kind of punishment then we should give
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,
Another major reason why juveniles are ending up in the juvenile justice system is because many schools have incorporate the zero tolerance policy and other extreme school disciplinary rules. In response to violent incidents in schools, such as the Columbine High School massacre, school disciplinary policies have become increasingly grave. These policies have been enacted at the school, district and state levels with the hopes of ensuring the safety of students and educators. These policies all rely on the zero tolerance policy. While it is understandable that protecting children and teachers is a priority, it is not clear that these strict policies are succeeding in improving the safety in schools.
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).
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.
In this case, schools, without the incorporation of students and parents, chooses what constitutes deviant behavior; along these same students and parent barring means, schools then decide who is deviant; they further determine how to deal with this non-normative behavior/ deviance by compiling a paper trail in order to legitimize disposing of particular students. It is vital to note that “troublemakers,” as frequently labeled, act in similar ways as many of the other students, yet get more severe punishments. The adolescents in these types of schools are all seen as criminals due to the labels that have been placed on them, thus are easily criminalized from coming up short in the socially constructed educational system, which prompts suspensions and eventually expulsions. The youth control complex or “web of control” in which institutions create a social fabric, manages most of the youth as criminals. The police, school administrators, and other authorities don’t bother to try to see if these individuals’ are actually criminals, or responsible for the incidents that led them to being labeled as deviant, instead they are generalized in an amorphous way as criminals. All in all, the criminal justice system’s fabric becomes part of the social context that consistently undermines these individual’s abilities to achieve within the
Zero tolerance policies have resulted in an increasing number of suspensions. “In 2009-10, at least 2,624 secondary schools across the nation suspended 25% of their total student body” (Losen & Martinez 15). Forcing
Dealing with discipline at the middle school level is a top priority for an administrator therefore, I have learned that it is important that I understand the process when working with students. All students have due process,
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.
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.
Although it may have a positive effect on some students, suspensions don’t work, students don’t learn anything from being suspended, suspensions give students a chance to stay home, and suspensions don’t teach students how to fix their behavior for future situations. When students are suspended they do not learn anything. A 2011 study showed that Texas students were suspended or expelled once or more during middle or high school, had on average four such disciplinary actions during their academic careers. Although some students may take something away from their suspension, others may just see it as a chance to sit around and not do their work. Therefore,
In school, kids are taught what’s right and what’s wrong, so they should have some understanding of what they should and shouldn’t do. This is why they should be held accountable for their actions because no matter what, kids are told to do what’s right, either from teachers, news, parents,
Since the 70s, many schools applied “zero-tolerance” policies requiring suspensions for certain offenses, leading to significantly more suspension overall, with rates nearly doubling from 1973 to 2006. These rates also exacerbated Pelenur 2 inequality, with Black students roughly four times as likely to be suspended as white students (2014, Department of Education Office for Civil Rights; 2018
Discipline has always been an issue that has plagued education. Troublesome students have always been a source of disturbances and distractions. Many school have implemented an in school suspension (ISS) program to combat the disruptiveness of problem students. These programs aim to remove students from the classroom while keeping them in an educational setting.
Is dropout rates affected by suspension? Why do students not learn from suspension? How does this benefit the school? The act of suspending students has ben used for a long ongoing time now to try to “help” students after they they have done something wrong or that is against the rules. Although suspending students sometimes does work, schools should use alternative methods because students are less likely to drop out, you can better teach students how to act, and because suspension doesn't help the school.
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.