So today I was browsing news articles looking for something to write about when I found one called Pennsylvania high school gives nearly 500 students suspension notices. The article mention how this mass suspension is the new school principals means of cracking down on truancy. This bothers me however. If the Principal is trying to get students to come to class, why is she kicking kids out, albit temporarily. At least for me, I have never understood suspension as a form of punishment from school. These are kids already willing to skip class in order to goof around and now they have the added excuse of being suspended and literally not being allowed to go. The idea behind suspension is that they are being punished for misdemeanor but all it is really doing is shifting the responsibility of punishment back to the parents. Normally I believe that it the parents responsibility to discipline but how are they supposed to supervise their child when they have to go to work and the child gets to be home alone. Not only that but considering the sheer number of suspensions just issued, most of that student's friends are also currently not in class and free to hang out. In my opinion suspension from school is an ineffective form of punishment in a school environment. Honestly though I do not have a better alternative. The ones that come to mind are of course detention and additional work but I am unsure how effective those would be when the students regularly skip out on required classes anyway. What are your thoughts on the matter? Does suspension work as a punishment in schools or are there better ways of handling it?
"New PA Principal Issues Suspensions to Half of High School's Students." Fox News. FOX News Network, 31 Mar. 2017. Web. 31 Mar. 2017.
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AuthorIan Kindall a CD major emphasizing in Game Design Archives
May 2017
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