It’s Time for Suspensions to be Expelled Don’t you want your child to stay in school? If your child got in trouble, wouldn’t you rather the situation be handled now? Aren’t suspended students, in a way, just giving them what they want, an excuse to go home? Suspensions have been a recurring event at a lot of schools across the world, but now they are being questioned as to whether or not they are useful. Although suspensions are a temporary solution for schools to figure out what to do with troublemakers, It is time for Schools to get rid of suspensions, because suspensions make students three times more likely to drop out, is only a temporary solution, and can make kids not learn as much. Schools should get rid of suspensions. Studies have
(a) This study examines out-of-school suspensions in the 9th grade and their effect on high school and post-secondary outcomes. This analyses also examines demographic disparities in school suspensions, their relationship to poverty and their contribution to high school graduation and post-secondary attainment gaps.
Out of school suspensions (OSS) are often enforced with the assumption that students receiving the suspension are less likely to repeat the problem behavior in the future. However, this has been proven to be false. Suspending a student for engaging in a certain behavior does not in fact serve as a deterrent from the behavior but as a deterrent from attending school instead. In actuality, receiving just a single suspension can increase the probability of a student experiencing academic failure, school dropout, and involvement in the juvenile justice system. Knowing this, some educators still believe that for many students, suspension can serve as an effective lesson. One of the greatest concerns that educators and administrators face is the matter of classroom management. It is part of their job to ensure a safe, productive and supportive classroom allowing students to learn and grow to their greatest potential. Though there are several strategies gauged towards managing a classroom, the most severe offences often lead to either in or out of school suspension. Some of the largest concerns faced with out of school suspensions is that they are often ineptly applied, used unfairly against students of color and seemingly ineffective at producing better behavior. Also known as exclusionary discipline, the majority of offenses that led to OSS have not been centered around violence but instead emphasised issues of classroom insubordination and defiance. In some rather extreme cases
Do administrators of schools every see the child's? Does suspension increase dropout rates? Is there ever a since of justice for the child? Since schools first came to be they have always suspended students without questioning or reasoning in a comfortable environment.Although school suspension is way for the child to be isolated and think about what they have done, schools should get rid of school suspension because this makes the student feel as though there voice is being heard in the matter, since the student is in a more safe and cozy environment the student will reveal what happened, this will prevent higher dropout and school suspension rates.
With the use of technology comes great responsibility which leads to another key in effective schools which is a whole school behavior policy. Students need to know that if they misbehave there will be consequences. In the article, “Reforming School Discipline” Derek W. Black speaks of the importance of creating a fair behavior policy where suspension is not a key element. In my school there will be a set of universal rules that will be used throughout the whole school. Teachers will not be able to create
In the article “School Suspensions: Pros, Cons, and Ways to Improve”, it says a con is that the students don’t receive the day’s class work and will miss the lessons during class. Hearing someone explain something confusing and complicated will help them remember the correct way. All they get is a written explanation that can get confusing and they will end up doing the work wrong because they couldn’t get the right explanation of what to do. Even though most students do keep up with their work when they get suspensions, others think that it’s like a vacation from school and they don’t do their work on time or don’t do it correctly. The students’ education shouldn’t be affected even if they did break the rules, their lessons and classes are too important to miss that much
Students suspensions for minor infractions and kids often do not show up after being suspended
Although some schools have faced various barriers in particular some parents and staff still believe the traditional suspension system works best, but with this new system in place the student will get the communication they need. The better the communication the more positive the kid will be when he returns to school.
A punishment is to serve justice on those who have violated the rules of the community surrounding them, essentially instilling the concept of consequences in hopes of preventing repercussions. In our public education system, the disciplinary system is developed around the idea of in-school-suspension (ISS) or out-of-school-suspension (OSS), where students who have failed to comply with fundamental rules are punished by moving them to an alternate classroom environment or simply making them stay home. The nation has seen a high number of ISS and OSS participants that have remained relatively constant throughout the years. Schools nationwide have been struggling to efficiently improve participant’s social morality through the use of the ISS
Does it really work? How is this effective? What's the point in it? Schools suspend students without letting them give an explanation for their actions. Some suspensions contribute to students who will eventually decide to drop out. Suspensions don’t help but can lead to bad things for the student. Educators shouldn’t suspend students without getting an explanation of the whole situation. Children will not take responsibility for their actions and continue to have disciplinary issues, miss their assignments and do not take responsibility for their conduct, and most schools don’t even let students explain why took action in the situation.
Suspending kids is not the way to punish scholars because it increases the high school student dropout rate. Referring to Brian Palmer’s article, “Why Do We Suspend Misbehaving Students,” it acknowledges that students that have been suspended are three times more likely to drop out than a student who has not. Furthermore, the city of Baltimore has recently begin to act differently when students disobey, resulting in their dropout rate to rapidly decrease. Overall, schools should find a different way to manage their students actions. Taking consideration for all the students who do plan to finish their high school experience, there is still a big amount of students that couldn't care less. The schools need to
While they say that removing children is necessary for learning, the children who are affected also need to learn. Academic rates are what schools need to be successful, as the majority of schools are judged on their safety and academic rates. Suspending them not only takes them out of school, it depletes the academic rate of the student and could put them at risk of possibly failing their grade or being eligible for college. If a student decides that they are interested in dropping out, it could be harder for them to come back, if they wish to get back into their primary education. It also costs money to acquire a GED, the alternative for a High School Diploma, which is free for anyone to acquire when someone finishes and graduates from primary
What effect do suspending students really have? Does it have a positive impact on students? When a school suspends a student for misbehaving, does it affect another student? Suspending students have become more and more controversial with new threats and issues within schools, and now with recent shootings and other horrific incidents occurring in schools, some parents and teachers are questioning if suspending these misbehaving students are the right things to do. Although some disagree with suspending students for their actions, schools should suspend misbehaving students because it gives the student time to think about their actions, positively affect the safety for other students’, and it acts as a consequence for the student misbehaving.
Are suspensions worth our time or are they just a waste valuable learning time for the students? Well, in my opinion, suspensions are not benefiting the students in any way. Sure it keeps them out of trouble and causing havoc with their peers but it is destroying their education. If we would stop suspending students the benefits would be, students are getting the education they need, they can get counselling in school, and can benefit their future.
What happens when kids get it trouble? Does this affect them at all? Does it keep them from doing it again? School suspensions don’t give children a punishment that they are able to learn from, rather just keeping them out of school, which will result in recurring misbehavior in school. Although some might say that suspensions are an effective way of disciplining children for their actions, but in reality, school suspensions should be left in the past. Demolishing school suspensions will help schools, because they are currently unjust to students, increasing dropout rates, and ineffective at home.
“During the last twenty years, schools across the nation have dropped their values for suspending and expelling students. The subsequent trends in punitive policy enforcement are conspicuous in a great number of states. “The national number of suspensions has increased from approximately 1.7 million in 1974 to more than 3.3 million in 2006. More recently, during the 2009–2010 school year, a reported 3,081,240.55 children were suspended at least once. With reference to expulsions nationally, in 2006 the Department of Education projected that approximately 102,077 students are expelled from their learning environments annually (Rodriguez, 2013).” Moreover, when students are suspended, or expelled, they are more likely to repeat a grade, drop out, or become involved with the juvenile system.