Does Suspending Students Work?
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11 comments:
It would if the Federal Government stays out of the schools and let the local government hand it!! Also, Let the teachers discipline as well!! Parents need to be responsible for their children, instead of going to the school and saying that the teacher doesn't like my kid!! Please, Give me a break!! Discipline your kids and we wouldn't have to worry about them being suspension!!
It works, if only for the benefit of the rest of the students. They have a school experience with less threats to their physical safety, less worry of being sexually harnessed, and less distractions in the classroom by disrespectful students. I have a feeling the no comments are coming from parents who don't want their little darlings at home doing the day requiring them to actually parent.
Instead of suspending the student, which is what they want anyway (time away from school), they should make a parent come into the school and monitor their child for a day. I guarantee you that the parent will get the point across to the child when they get home.
Probably not.
It did back in my day, when I knew there would be hell to pay when I got home.
1 vote for George C.'s comment!!
Involve/inconvenience the parent and the problem will be resolved.
It did back in the day, but today's rules and unruly children who don't give a damn along with their parents are better off expelled. The only benefit is that the students who want to learn and want to take part in the school system are protected from the bad element.
It helps the ones who have been bullied, threatened, stolen from, and beaten up. They have no rights and are certainly not the priority of the school system.
They need to bring back paddling ,buy NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO don't touch my great kid.
Back when there was discipline, consequences to pay from both the teachers and parents, and enough to learn to make school a great place to be, yes.
Today, school is so dumbed down, the kids don't want to be there, and the lack of discipline from both ends makes it an undesirable environment.
In the first case, it was an embarrassment to the student to be suspended, and when not allowed to be at school, he was missing a social life as well as falling behind in assignments which were hard to catch back up on once back, which was always accompanied by a sort of cold shoulder from his friends for screwing up.
In today's scenario, it's celebration, high fives and kudos, and the makeup work is a piece of cake, since school is so easy; hell, they didn't even have to learn to read, write cursive, or spell to graduate! Count to what?
Timely question:
There are a number of steps in the progressive discipline system used. Unfortunately there are a lot of repeat offenders and the process does not seem encourage better behavior or to sufficiently discourage improper behavior.
When the bad actors are off campus life is better for other students and teachers but most behaviors seem to resume upon return.
Statistics will now be skewed since Md Dept of Ed has its fingers into what demographics are being disciplined rather than what accounts for disruptive behavior.
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