...How is school suspensions actually benefiting the school system? Do they even make students reflect on what they did wrong? How does it resolve issues within the student body? School suspensions have been around for a long time. In the 1960’s and 70’s school suspension numbers spiked by what possibly is a result of desegregation. This spiked made people question the efficiency of school suspensions. Although school suspension does reduce the number of problem students, schools should use restorative justice instead of suspension because students understand what they did wrong, it reduces the pressure of a student wanting to drop out, and it solves issues within the students’ relationships. Students have a greater chance of knowing what they...
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...In most schools if you act out there will be some form of punishment. Is suspension the correct form of punishment or, is there a better way? If a student gets into a fight or flips over a table, odds are they will be sentenced to suspension. Meaning they must stay out of school for a certain amount of time. Although schools can’t allow children that cause issues in school, suspension is not the way to stop this behavior because, children may see suspension as a form of reward, students will not be able to give an accurate description of what happened, students will not see what they did wrong but obsess over what the other student did to them. School suspension doesn’t work because, children may see suspension as a form of reward. If children’s parents don’t punish them for what they did at school, the suspension just feels like a break. Parents of children who act out repeatedly usually want to be seen as someone the child can be friends with. Children of such parents are usually more hostile towards their parents, peers, and authority. Not all children who are parented this way turn out to be hostile but, suspension is still not the way to punish them....
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...of disciplines 1. The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience: a lack of proper parental and school discipline * the controlled behaviour resulting from such training: he was able to maintain discipline among his men * activity that provides mental or physical training: the tariqa offered spiritual discipline * a system of rules of conduct: he doesn’t have to submit to normal disciplines 2. A branch of knowledge, typically one studied in higher education: sociology is a fairly new discipline * train (someone) to obey rules or a code of behaviour, using punishment to correct disobedience: many parents have been afraid to discipline their children * punish or rebuke formally for an offence: a member of staff was to be disciplined by management * (discipline oneself to do something) train oneself to do something in a controlled and habitual way: every month discipline yourself to go through the file School discipline School discipline is the system of rules, punishments, and behavioural strategies appropriate to the regulation of children or adolescences and the maintenance of order in schools. Its aim is to control the students' actions and behaviour. An obedient student is in compliance with the school rules and codes of conduct. These rules may, for example, define the expected standards of clothing, timekeeping, social conduct, and work ethic. The term discipline...
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...Why Change Something So Good? Why is suspension bad? Are schools not doing all they can do for disobedient children? Do we really need to change the way we handle these kids entirely? Throughout school’s history, suspension has been there as a convenient and familiar way to handle naughty children. Even today it still is the best way to handle a hurting and disobeying child. Although non-suspensions can be good for some kids, schools should continue to suspend, because, kids that are kept in school could do even more damage, isolation is a better way to for the kid to handle his/her problems, and keeps the other kids safe and teaches them discipline. If kids are kept in school more damage could be done to the school. 73% of parents who have had their kids suspended is happy that they are confined and away from peers. Most students that get into suspension get it while doing wrong with peers. Keep them away from the others and they can’t do as much damage. Although some people feel that suspension just feeds the fire in the student, do we really need some perceived as delinquents running around with the better kids in the school? Think about this, the rate of students that get suspended each year is about 20% since we have been suspending them from the school it has gone down by 1.27% each year. On that pace in 8 years the...
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...Are School Suspensions a good thing? Are kids learning from suspensions? Are they bad for education? Are they good for education? Kid get in trouble, fewer get detention, and even less get suspended. Kids that get suspended usually come back and get asked a lot of questions like “What happened ?” or “How was it ?”. Even though that kid probably hated it. Even though some kids deserve it, school suspensions should be removed because, they can’t do the work, they make kids want to dropout, and they get suspended for dumb reasons so they don’t take it seriously Some of those kids can’t do the work that’s given to them.When a kid gets suspended from school the amount of time he or she is gone, they will have to makeup those days of notes, homework,...
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...Why do schools continue to suspend students? Haven’t principals and superintendents been informed of the new evidence? Why do parents still support suspending their kids? Principals and teachers could easily sit the students down and talk about why the student chose to do what they did, and how their actions create tension in school. Although a suspension does give the student a break from school, that may be what they want and will do anything to get time off. Suspensions should not be assigned as much because giving out suspensions doesn’t give the student a chance to tell their side of the story, they are out of the classroom but still having to do the work, basically leaving them to teach themselves, and being suspended can lead to dropping out. Writing out suspensions right after an incident doesn’t give the student enough time to explain why they did what they did, schools should convert to the restorative justice system. The restorative justice system gives the student a chance to explain themselves and apologize to his or her peers....
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...School Suspension Is Not Effective Why do we suspend kids? Is it effective? What could be a possible alternative? High School dropout rates are lower due to this new system of not suspending kids from school.Although, suspending students is familiar, cheap, and convenient, we should stop suspending kids from schools because, kids want to stay home from school, you’re just punishing the child instead of working out the problem, and the kid doesn’t receive the same education. Suspending kids doesn’t punish them effectively since utmost kids don’t want to go to school. For example, sometimes kids even pretend they’re sick so they don’t have to go to school. Kids will act out to go home during the day, even if it’s a punishment. Even though the...
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...was livid her 6-year-old son got suspended for “distribution of a drug” in his kindergarten class for bringing a pill to school The boy’s mom thinks the Missouri elementary school went to far in punishing her child because of his age, according to Fox4kc. Zamari Hawkins was hit with a 10 day suspension over the sleeping pill that ended up in another students mouth. But, the mom feels the punishment given by Martin City Elementary School was too harsh because he’s only in kindergarten. Largent said: “I could understand if he was in like middle school or high school, where he really understand -- even fourth or fifth grade -- but he doesn’t know any better.” Zamari, who has ADHD and a mood disorder, was already suspended once this year for behavioral problems. His mom explained “He was having problems sitting still,” but he was doing better in school until he brought the pill in....
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...Not Work "Zero Tolerance Policies" were first instated into schools, to enforce suspension and expulsion, in response to students; violating; weapons, drugs and violent act policies that were already in place. Shortly after, schools began to instate “No Bulling Policies” partly to a high suicide rate among teenagers due to bulling. The consequences for violating these policies can now go beyond expulsion, and have legal implications. In theory these policies are a great idea. Unfortunately, these policies are rarely implemented and carried out correctly, causing them to not just be ineffective; but causing them to have adverse effects. We have tried these policies in our schools , it has been proven that they have done more harm than good; it is now time to remove these policies from our schools. The “school to prison pipeline," is a recent national trend where children are pushed out of public schools, and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities, histories of poverty, and histories of abuse and neglect. There students would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished and pushed out. Many "Zero-tolerance" policies criminalize minor infractions of school rules. Cops in schools are criminalizing behavior that should be handled inside the school. Students of color are especially vulnerable to push-out trends and the harsh application of discipline. (eric.edu.gov) ...
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...-----10 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION a.) STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM This mini term paper cast about to research about the Moving of Classes from June to September. 1.) FOLLOWING QUESTON 1.) What if it will be moved to September, how will it affects the students? 2.) Will it be giving us enough advantages? 3.) Will it gives us gaps from the lessons we learned? 4.) What are the opinions of selected parents? b.) IMPORTANCE OF STUDY - The main objective of this study is to know the opinions, perceptions, and point of view of the selected students, faculty members under (College of Education, administrators of Polytechnic University of the Philippines) and also the parents. The study’s goal is designed to help the teachers, student, school administrators and also parents to know if moving of classes is advisable in our country. In this study, the researchers’ goal is to recognize the opinion of different students in our society as the researchers mentioned before. The researchers intended...
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...Describe a Case The school to prison pipeline is a societal issue. The school to prison pipeline is also an issue in the field of social work as well. My case is based from Wilson article, (2014), Turning off the School-to-Prison Pipeline. As a social worker I will encounter many situations regarding adolescents having difficulties staying in school. The alarming factor of the school to prison pipeline is the disparity between racial groups, specifically black students. Wilson article discuss many issues with the school to prison pipeline and solutions. Research suggest that community interventions are the best solution to the school to prison pipeline (Wilson, 2014). For example, training teachers on different cultures and back grounds,...
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...students being alienated and never returning to school after being suspended or expelled are all byproducts of the zero tolerance policies adopted by their school district. School administrators have abandoned common sense due to their adherence to zero tolerance policies by applying the same discipline to students that are guilty of minor offenses and non-violent rules violations, or just poor judgment as they due to students that are repeat offenders that pose serious threats to the safety of the school. Under the Zero Tolerance policies African-American students are suspended at an approximate rate of 2.3 times that of Caucasian students nationally even when socio-economic factors are taken into consideration. These one-size fits all policies are also contributing to the elevated dropout rates related to repeated use of suspension and expulsion. The illusion that zero tolerance policies are making our schools safer has blinded school administrators to the fact that these draconian policies are contributing to the education problem in America. | Abstract . The Zero Tolerance policies that have been implemented in public school systems has eliminated common sense in determining disciplinary action, are racially biased, and are contributing to the growing population of high school dropouts. Strict adherence to so called Zero Tolerance policies has resulted in students being handcuffed, arrested and expelled from schools across the country for ridiculous offenses such...
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...amend the opening of classes. The existing school calendar which spans from June to March is often disrupted as destructive typhoons plague the region during the rainy season that’s why our lawmakers decided to move the opening of classes from September through May to avoid numerous class suspensions and serve to protect the students during strong typhoons. The Department of Education said that it is open to the proposal by some sectors, including lawmakers to move the opening of classes but they want to ensure the comfort of the students in school and stresses the need for a comprehensive study. While the Department of Education is open on the proposal, some did not welcome this idea. An initial survey on the matter conducted way back in 2009. On the respondents, 66 percent were against the move while 34 percent were in favor. [1] Also, another ground for rejecting the proposal is the traditions celebrated during summer and being not conducive in learning because of hot weather during March. The delay in suspension of classes is one of the reasons why our lawmakers and other sectors in the community urge to move the classes from June to September. Unexpected suspension of classes is hard on the part of students because they have to deal with floods, lack of transportations and diseases. Numerous class suspensions also cause irregularity of school days due to rains and floods, horrendous difficulties to and from school and danger to life from open drains and excavations...
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...This policy sets out requirements for schools to plan and implement appropriate responses to drug related incidents, with an emphasis on prevention through drug education and safe and supportive school environments, and intervention and support for students who may be involved. 1.Objectives - Policy statement 1.1 This policy covers the possession and use of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs and the misuse of over-the-counter and prescribed medications, including the supply of restricted substances, on school premises by students. It also covers the possession and use of alcohol and tobacco on school premises by employees and visitors. 1.2 Department of Education and Training (DET) employees are also bound by requirements in the Code of Conduct relating to drugs, alcohol and tobacco. 1.3 Illegal drugs 1.3.1 Schools must be places which are free of illegal drugs. 1.3.2 Principals must manage disciplinary matters involving suspected illegal substances or supply of restricted substances consistent with the Suspension and Expulsion of School Students - Procedures (PD/2006/0316). 1.3.3 Principals must report incidents involving illegal drugs to the School Safety and Response Hotline on 1300 363 778. 1.4 Alcohol 1.4.1 Alcohol must not be consumed or brought to school premises during school hours. This includes employees, students and visitors and other people who use school premises. In the case of cross-sectoral sites (e.g. joint school/TAFE sites), a decision regarding...
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...This case scenario is about Charlie, a 5th-grade special education student with a learning disability with no history of behavior problems. He received a three-day suspension for theft and on the same day received an additional ten-day suspension for threatening his teacher. This essay explains what should happen when a student with an Individual Education Plan (IEP) is disciplined for breaking school code of conduct. Within a matter of minutes, Charlie’s situation went from relatively minor, meaning not much action needed to be taken by the school, to a more significant issue. Due to his status as a special education student, the school is required to ensure Charlie continues to receive a free appropriate public education. Had Charlie not been given an additional suspension for acting out he would have served his three days and the issue may have been over. His school would not have to provide him with educational services if they did not provide educational services to general education students disciplined for the same infraction (34 CFR §300.530(d)(3), 2004). Furthermore, no additional meetings or assessments would be necessary. However, because his suspensions totaled more than ten days, several...
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