What does suspending a student actually do to them? Does it even have an effect on most students? Is suspending the best punishment? Not many children think about it but suspending kids is a very big deal and could affect their future in a big way. Although there are situations where a child should be suspended, suspension is not a thing to take lightly but still it is overused. Suspending students deterrent value is low and it is also clearly ineffective, also suspending students has been way overused as a punishment and seems to not affect the children that much, and taking children of all ages out of schools will help them in no way and might possibly affect their future in a bad way. Suspending students is clearly ineffective and its …show more content…
In light of recent events of shootings, schools have gone far enough as to suspend a 7 year old for chewing a breakfast pasty into a gun and also many other small children who were pretending to shoot each other. One could understand the severity of suspending a teenager for doing such things, but to go as far as suspending a small child who most likely doesn’t even know much about the recent events, or anything about them for that matter, is a bit much and it most likely won’t affect the child at all because they would rather stay home anyway. While it is true that a child should really not be joking about guns, they are children and they don’t know any better and don’t intend for their joking around to be used as a threat. So it stands to reason that suspending has been way overused and is unhelpful to the children who do get …show more content…
When you take a child out of school it doesn’t just take away their opportunity to see their friends or make bad decisions in school again, it takes away their education. Now if schools were to start using In School Suspension, where the children still have to go to school and do work but are separated from everyone else, that is usually a worse punishment than not having to go to school for a few days. The fact of the matter is that most of the people who get suspended are people who don’t care and have parents who don’t care if they get suspended or not. They would rather get suspended than still have to stay in school and do work. Yes, sometimes it is necessary to suspend a child or punish them in a harsher way, but still there is no reason to take a child away from their education because of a bad mistake or decision they made. This means that suspending children all the time is not
These kids don’t misbehave in the classroom for no reason. They are probably releasing those emotions that are bottled up from them at home in school. Not coming from a stable background can have quite the effect on trying to learn in a classroom. The problems that need to be fixed are trying to make schools feel more like a “safe haven” rather than a prison. Afterschool programs need to be put into place, to allow kids to stay at school for long so they don’t get involved in street life, or so they can just not have to deal with the outside problems of the world for a little bit longer. Also, school need to change. They need to try and make learning more fun, and more integrated with the children they are teaching. An easy an example of this is teaching these kids about their history, so they have many people to look up to besides just Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks. Only teaching black and Latino kids about people that don’t even look like them or go through anything they have gone through, makes them bored and uneager to learn. Also, more rewards in to be into place to make kids feel more welcomed and wanting to do good in class. Even though it may seem out of the ordinary for some, suspension needs to stop. Allowing these kids to take a break from somewhere they already don’t want to be is ushering them towards a life of hating school. Suspension not only hurt the school district but also hurt the
Firstly, if there are no more troublemakers in the school, the students that want to learn will be able to learn without any distractions; also, there would be no one to bully them, and there would be no interference in their ability to learn. If we permanently ban such students from school, educators could focus more on the students who want to learn instead of focusing on troublemakers. Secondly, the students that doesn`t want to be in schools wouldn’t be wasting their time anymore. Troublemakers do not learn anything by attending the school because they have no interest in studies, and all they are doing is wasting their time. They could use this time for doing something that they want to do, or something that they are interested in. Lastly, their absence will provide a safer school environment. Troublemakers always try to get into fights against others; in fact, they have no fear of security. By their actions, they could put other students into big troubles. Their mind is always seeking for attention, and they could do anything to attain others` attention; as a result, the environment of the school gets disturbed. By not letting them into the school, we could provide a safer environment for the students that really wants to learn. Overall, banning troublemakers would be helpful for students that are serious about their
If you did not know, the zero tolerance policy is when students break school behavior rules and strict regulations created by the district or school and get severe consequences for it. Carla Amurao, the author of the article, “Fact Sheet: How Bad Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline?”, stated that “statistics reflect that these policies disproportionately target students of color”. Students of color are being affected so badly by this policy, that statistics show black students are 3 times more likely to get expelled than white students. Since these students are being expelled or arrested for breaking zero tolerance policy rules, they are missing valuable information in classes due to court hearings. But, some people argue that the zero tolerance policy is unfair to all students, making the education system equal for all to succeed. For example, a “2007 study by the Advancement Project and the Power U Center for Social Change says that for every 100 students who were suspended, 15 were Black, 7.9 were American Indian, 6.8 were Latino and 4.8 were white”. As you can see, the zero tolerance policy affects all races, making them miss their education because of certain consequences. Because the mindset of these people is that, if the zero-tolerance policy does not affect just one race or group of people, then the education system
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,
While students have First Amendment rights, there are still some things that the school is allowed to control. Censorship in school is important because it can minimize distractions and other behavioral problems. It also gives parents peace of mind and students the feeling of security. It is also important for a student to be able to express themselves. People express themselves in different ways, and they have the constitutional right to do so whether they’re on school grounds or not. Censorship is a very controversial issue and should not be taken lightly. There are many things to consider when censoring, and it’s important to have balance between censorship and freedom in schools.
In the USA, more than 135,000 guns are brought to school by pupils, some children as young as nine years old. But this is not a good idea because some children use it seriously and just shoot their friends because they are annoyed at them.
Students are deprived from there leaning do to the tardy policy. A policy that is unfair this tardy policy makes students serve a 30 min detention if there even a second late to class and after multiple absences or tardies you can face legal consequences. There's many reasons why students may be late for example students need to take the city buss, bikes ,cars to school but there's always traffic so sometimes it's not the students fault , students shouldn't be given a 30 minute detention for being a couple of minutes late.
A science teacher in Mississippi asked her students to take a picture with their completed DNA Lego model. John Doe took his picture with a smile and a hand gesture in which his thumb, index, and middle finger was raised. This was enough to earn him an indefinite suspension with a recommendation for expulsion because his school administrators believed he flashed a gang sign although he was simply putting up three fingers to represent his football jersey number. (NPR Isensee, 2014). This kind of criminalization of young people contributes to suspension, dropout, and incarceration, and too often pushes students into what is referred to by many education scholars and activists as the “school-to-prison pipeline,” a term that refers to “the policies and practices that push our nation’s schoolchildren, especially our most at-risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems” (ACLU 2013). The School-to-Prison Pipeline is one of the most urgent challenges in education today. This paper will focus on the following circumstances and policies contributing to the school-to-prison pipeline: 1) resource deprived schools, 2) high-stake testing and 3) zero-tolerance discipline policies. However, it is important to note that the school-to-prison pipeline is a broad problem not limited to these three components and has been influenced by historical inequities (segregated education), concentrated poverty, and racial disparities in law enforcement (NAACP, 2005). They have each served to isolate and remove a massive number of people, a disproportionately large percentage of whom are youth of color, from their communities and from participation in civil society (NAACP, 2005). I argue for attention to the school-to-pr...
If the zero tolerance program is installed in the educational system, schools must decide when and how it should be enforced. This is a very complex issue and when open to debate you see three approaches to it. First, advocates of zero tolerance policies concentrate on positive changes in school security, ways of punishment, and change in student behavior. Those who oppose the policies argue that zero tolerance should be eliminated due to its lack of rationale and logic. Finally, the opposing viewpoint criticizes the zero tolerance policy for being too extreme and inappropriate for schools.
Students’ rights in schools are limited or just taken away. Kids are forced to do whatever the officials at their school, either the principal or the teachers, tell the students to do. One of the main right that gets taken away or limited is students’ first amendment rights, which is the freedom of expression. Students can gets suspended by just doing things the staff at the school does not like, including saying things that they don 't like or supporting a religion that the school does not support. Also, if something is said about the school or the people attending the school is said on social media that student can also get in a lot of trouble. Students should be able to have more first amendment
... my opinion it is just a way it’s just a temporary act which does not last. Youth need to interact with peers, help in the decision making process, sense of belonging, and develop a value system. If we kick them out of school we are not helping them become respectful citizens in the community.
They say that it takes less time than taking classes and teaches them faster. It says in the article “8 guidelines for Disciplining Bullies at School” “For instance, if a school suspension is the only consequence for any type of bullying,” This shows that In school suspension does not help because when you are in school suspension you cannot talk to anyone. This is bad because it does not teach you what you did wrong and you will end up doing it again. This does not even help kids reflect on what they have done and the teachers should pull them out of there at times and talk to them to put some sense into them. The other reason that people say that bullies should be punished is because they could understand the affects of bullying. It says in “My story of being picked on. Shawn c, No year, Overcome bullying” “ I was picked on by everyone about everything about myself. I tried to tell my teacher but she did nothing (thanks public school system). I felt so low, I didn't have any friends, I was a complete outcast. This shows that This is bad because teachers give up on punishment because they don't see any improvement on anybody and they just give up and don't listen to anyone. When they do not see any improvement in the bullying projects they end up giving up and it will keep the bullies bullying and it will still not change anything. This may not look like it affects them because they will remember their whole lives what they have been called and by who because it hurt them and they were embarrassed. In conclusion, though many legitimate reasons may come out against bullies getting therapy it is clear that if the proper regulations are put into place this epidemic of punishing bullies will
I do not believe is right to suspend a student based on race and just because the student acts out is not because they are future criminals. A student usually acts out because they lack attention at home and are seeking attention from an adult. I believe is better to help the child early in age instead later in their life when they start hanging out with the wrong crowd. Another type of student who will act out in a classroom setting would be a student with disabilities because they feel so out of place. As educators we can change the outcome of a student success in their education. The first thing to do would be to stop stereotyping a student by their race. A student success in a classroom setting should not be determine by their race. If a student acts out we should discipline the child the correct way by having small punishments. Suspending the child would only put them behind and they would not learn anything from it. Having the child stay after class and help those with their homework would feel more of a punishment than staying at home. If a child stays at home from suspension than they would feel like it’s a reward because they can’t stand school at a young
As mentioned previously, the school system has a perceived obligation to discipline students in an attempt to protect the safety of all staff and students, to preserve the decorum of the school, and also to develop character in students (Kajs, 2006). It is these three notions, along with the public’s perception of the rising issue of youth crime, and federal and provincial legislation that led to the implementation of zero tolerance polices. There are arguably three stages of the zero tolerance policies: there must be a perceived issue by the public, which creates a moral panic and leads to the government taking action to calm the situation by creating legislation and lastly, the school board implementing the regulations and
By keeping the students within the school they are still able to be monitored to ensure that they are still getting their work done and keeping up with the class. Also, by having them out of the class, the environment becomes more learning friendly to the students who do not cause trouble. According to Claiborne Winborne, a writer for Educational Leadership, “Keeping suspended students at school – but isolated from other students - makes more sense and is more effective than giving them a ‘vacation’ away from school.” (King William County, 466)