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School Suspensions Are Worse Than We Thought

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School Suspensions Are Worse Than We Thought

Many school systems need a way to discipline a misbehaving students, and it seems that suspending a student might be best, because their parents would discipline them and they would hopefully wake up, however suspending them might be the worst thing we could do, How is suspending a student going to make them any better? WHat makes people think that just sending them off will fix their behavior? Do schools really know how to handle misbehavior?
According to a report done by David Bulley in 2014, students are most likely to drop out due to suspension. Although it may be cheap and effective, all it really does is create bad views on people and create grudges. This also gives them what they want, to go home. Because Suspensions don't work, Simply picking them out won't stop them and suspending them could lead to worse things, therefore, we need to think of an alternative way to discipline them. …show more content…

In an article written by Brian Palmer, most students are going to come back and make the same mistakes as they did the first time, without any discipline efforts, some may say that it isn’t the job of the school to discipline the student, however it would benefit students very much to just have a talk about what they did and why it was wrong, and actually have the counselor make an effort to fix that with not just them, but also the other person(s) that were involved in the act. This simple exhautation of effort could fix problems in schools completely, if not then it still does better than just sending them

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