Why Suspending Misbehaving Students Is a Bad Idea
Teachers may be surprised to find out that suspending kids from school isn’t working anymore and we need a better solution for punishing the students. This is because many students would rather be home than having to come to school. Many schools in the past have used various different punishments for disobedient students but the main one has been suspending them from school and activities. This way of dealing with the students has worked for many years of teaching because the students back then knew that they were lucky to even be going to school. In this new generation, kids don’t care about school as much and would rather be home anyway. Although suspending misbehaving students may have worked in the past, schools should choose a different way of discipling students because, suspending students doesn’t fix their behavior, one the students come back they are more than likely to get themselfs suspended on purpose again, and finally most students
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Misbehaving kids are usually the ones that don’t care about school as much as others. They would rather be at home playing around than having to be at school. For example, kids at my school think that it is cool to be suspended and don’t really care about it so they keep getting into more fights so they will get into trouble more. There are always those kids that love school and look at it like a privilege, but there is also that small group of people in each school that think of it as something that hey just have to do. Many might try and argue that if they suspend a student, it will be a big impact in their life but most kids still think of it as a small party out of school where you don’t have to do your work and get poor grades and no one would care. Therefore having different ways to punish the students to make them care would be better for our