Maryland is urging its 1,450 public schools to move away from student suspensions for incidents of disrespect and insubordination as part of newly approved code-of-conduct guidelines.
The guidelines reflect the sweeping changes that the Maryland State Board of Education made six months ago as it sought to take a more rehabilitative approach toward student misconduct and reduce racial disparities in punishment.
The recommendations are intended to help districts as they update their local codes of conduct to incorporate the shift in Maryland’s thinking. They include a wide range of offenses matched with possible consequences.
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Yeah-Maryland is "urging." Try bribing. They dangle grant money over the heads of the schools that show they have reduced suspensions. The average MD resident then thinks the schools are having less disciplinary problems because suspensions are lower but the fact is, they just made it more palatable to not suspend students.
ReplyDeleteThis is the democrat way. They create illusions and call them successes. In the meantime the students who are in school to learn are suffering. Democrats are not good people. Vote them all out. They sell the souls of their own children for a vote.
This is absurd! The ONLY way to even possibly get some parents to discipline their children is to suspend them ... parents don't want them at home, so just maybe they will do something to correct the behavior of their kids! Personally, I think it's great when a disruptive child is out of school for a few days so the other kids can have a normal classroom environment. No, I don't think a child should miss learning opportunities but, if they can't behave and pay attention, they're not learning anyway! Bring back expulsion, and don't let kids move from school to school due to poor behavior. If your child can't behave in public school, you'll have to pay a private school and see if they can behave there. I'm sick of catering to the worst.
ReplyDeleteThat is ok - the parents don't want to control their kids, the schools don't want to do anything at all about it - just wait until they get a job! Then they will GET FIRED! Someone will step up to the plate and learn to DISCIPLINE these ANIMALS!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAs if the modern school environment isn't bad enough, let’s take even more control away from the teachers. Soon the inmates will be running the asylum. Who would send their kids to these hell-holes if they have any other possible choice?
ReplyDelete"GET FIRED" 10:27.... Once fired they go on unemployment, food stamps etc., so we're paying a greater price in the end.
ReplyDeleteWell what do we expect? Certain cultures find it near impossible without vulgarity, cursing and verbal disrespect to even utter a complete correct sentence. Let's face it, the great social experiment that was started in the 1960's has failed and never had any chance to succeed due to the inferior upbringing within the home and the lack of parenting by the baby producers as they only respect a welfare check!
ReplyDeleteHomie don't play that.
Deleteyup ... teach our kids to disrespect authority / parents and trust the government ... what a deadly combination
ReplyDeleteTHAT oughta even out a lot of the "disparities" in discipline and "discrimination"".....
ReplyDeleteThat's ALL this is about.
Its always been a strange ting to me that when I was in school, if you mouthed off, wouldn't sit in your chair, didn't stop talking when told (the first time), the TEACHER was just as likely to smack you as the principal was. We didn't have "ADHD". Everyone learned, became responsible adults, got jobs, went to war (and didn't come back with "stress sysndrome"), paid taxes, etc. And we not only knew about "respect", we PRACTICED it.
Now, kids have carte blanche to say and do whatever they want.
No matter what your perspective of political leanings, you MUST admit this ----
The results speak for them themselves.
Keep cheering.
Controlling the kids is impossible so pretend it's OK when they're wild.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with contracts is they aren't followed. The kids still act up and have see themselves as having "won" as they are back in the class with no real punishment.
ReplyDeleteOut-of-school suspension for non-violent offenses don't work either. It's a vacation day. And to say "let the student's be able to make up their work when suspended" is ridiculous. These kids are given 3-5 days per one day of out-of-school suspension to make up their work. The catch. They have to stay after school in the detention room to make up the work. Guess how many do that? Slim to none. That's how many. So, then they get zeros.
You know what kids who are non-violent and mouthy hate - in-school-detention. If done right, they kids are required to be at school. If they don't come on the day of ISS, they do it when they do show up. Then they are made to do their missed work all day long with no talking. Work all done - here's a boring magazine you get to copy - word-for-word.
Make the punishment something they hate. A day off of school is not it.
Violent kids - get them out of the schools. Don't move them around. Some you can reach and help. Some you can't.
Kids have to want to help themselves. The school system can't do it for them. There are a bunch of interventions going on. If a kid truly wants help - it's there.
The money spent on interventionists for the same kids year after year is ludicrous and unsustainable. If the kids were learning how to control themselves, the same bribes and army of interventionists would not be needed every single year. Stop the bribes in primary grades and start teaching what behavior is expected in school.
ReplyDeletePretty soon there will be no such thing as suspending a student. I feel sorry for the few conservative teachers though. The liberals are getting just want they have been asking for.
ReplyDeleteThey hired a black State Superintendent so of course she is going to protect her kind because they have been oppressed all these years and unfairly punished. Blacks and Democrats refuse to own responsibility. This Nation is doomed.
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