The Court stated that the District Court should have considered evidence to prove the value of each school day that was missed. The Court ruled the students would not be able to recover any damages representing the number of school days missed. Finally, the Court of Appeals held that even if the District Court found the suspensions to be justified, they would be entitled to recover non-punitive damages simply because they had been denied due
They were all suspended without being given a hearing prior to their suspension, or they weren’t given a hearing within a reasonable time after their suspension. Federal court mandated that the suspensions of the students be removed from their cumulative record. The Columbus Public School System and school board appealed the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the due process clause of the 14th amendment had been violated. SCOTUS ruled 5-4 in favor of the students of the Columbus Public School
I can see them in the office. Kids who have been fighting and now they 're getting suspended. These kids will have bad grades because all the days they missed in school. Many of these kids will turn around and get in more fights and eventually fail school. I read an article called “In L.A., policy shift yield decline in school suspensions” by Christine Armario.
This case doesn't only affect the tinkers but also the students at school. If the school district took back the Tinker’s suspension, it would be exposed to the other students which would tell them that there is freedom. By letting them being exposed to more freedom there would be a better community and they would have a better future. Schools are supposed to help students become better at what they do, help them prepare for the future, including college, and teaches students to be "better citizens” and make a better community. In order to do that, school should give students, including the Tinkers, freedom in order for them to succeed in their future.
In the article “Does Suspending Students Work?” written by Christopher J. Ferguson he gives his opinion on why suspending students doesn’t work. To do so he uses examples of s schools on why it doesn’t work. I never really sat down and thought if out of school suspensions where a good consequence or not but sitting down and reading this article I realize Ferguson has good points. As I read this article I came to a conclusion that I too agree that out of school suspensions are ineffective and there are more ways that can come out with a better result. The main point that I really agreed with was when he said “Giving students what amounts to a free day or two off doesn’t actually feel like punishment for most kids, especially those who may already be hostile towards school to begin with.”
The Federalist Papers, essays written on behalf of the ratification of the Constitution, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, are testaments to our Founding Fathers’ steadfast belief in a strong, national government; unified against the ills of those wishing to impose their tyrannical beliefs on the nascent country. More specifically, these eighty-five pieces of political brilliance truly shed light on just how divided our country was, with the Federalists believing in a national government, administered by a strong, core Federal system, and the Anti-Federalists, those who were opposed to the federal system, and alternately believed in a strong state system, with no strong, core federal government uniting the states. These Federalist papers were in essence a plea, then, to the people of the
By suspending and restraining these students more often than others and keeping them out the classrooms, they are being wrongfully excluded from an education, thus providing them with less opportunities to become a worthy member of
A public school cannot suspend a student with no notice or hearing because it infringes on his or her rights. The specific amendments broken by the public school officials are primarily the fifth and sixth. Public schools are not allowed to take away rights and liberties given to the American people. The suspended student was denied his rights to due process and his right to formal informant of crime committed. A liberty that every American enjoys is upon crime committed they are awarded a hearing/trial in order to promote fairness.
Youth of color specifically are at an increased risk of being suspended at an extended time out of schools. Consequently, they are casted into the streets, which ultimately sends them into juvenile detentions or into prison. The problem of racial and ethnic disproportionality in the discipline of schools is not new issue. In 1974, in one of the earliest investigations of disciplinary policies and practices, “the Children’s Defense Fund revealed that suspension rates for African American students were between two and three times higher than those for white students”( Thomas Rudd February 05, 2015) Ongoing research are still showing that in many places, this problem have worsened significantly.
Although when giving students suspension it does give them time to reflect, school suspension is not a good punishment because, when students are taken out of school for a couple of days they miss assignments and do not take responsibility for their conduct, when students go to in-school suspension they do not receive the day’s class work, work is completed incorrectly, and/or students use time to sleep, and all in all, the students do not get the correct help they need to overcome the problem whereas if the student was treated with a system called restorative justice, the student could learn to not go through the same situation. When students are taken out of school for a couple of days they miss assignments and do not take responsibility for their conduct. Think of this for example, Thomas is suspended and taken out of school for a couple of days,
Not only that but many people have raised concerns on whether these actions violate student rights. ACLU has looked into the issue and they have even gone as far as to state that this is a disturbing issue. Students go to for more oppurtunities, but when they are striped of their rights and instead handed criminal sentences school has done more harm than it could ever have done them
Even though suspension gives time for a kid to think of what they have done, it is not good for a troubled student. There is no lesson taught to the kid, they are just sent home for a couple days, They are being punished by doing something kids would prefer (not go to school), and there are programs that help troubled childrens with specific interactions with them. There is no lesson taught to a child if they are sent home for a week or so. If a child is sent home they are not getting a morale boost on what to do and what not to do.
It wasn 't just students and their parents - civil rights groups got involved, as did educators, and even juvenile judges sounded alarm at the number of young people who came out of zero tolerance with arrest records and other disciplinary millstones around their necks. The Obama Justice Department has also pressed school districts to find alternatives to arrest and expulsion. In recent years, Florida has indeed changed its approach - a 2009 amendment puts more discretion in the hands of school administrators to discipline students. A number of counties have also set up alternative sanctions for infractions - counseling, community service and other rehabilitative programs aim to help students improve their behavior, unlike expulsion, which left students to wander the streets during the day, fall behind on school work and get into even more trouble.
Although school suspensions may be an effective punishment for some students, schools shouldn’t suspend students because they don’t solve the bad students’ problems, they inspire students to drop out of school, and, overall, there are better systems to enforce than suspensions. First of all, schools shouldn’t suspend students because
What if one student in the fight had a good home life, his parents punished him, and he never got suspended again, but maybe the other student’s parents did not care, he would just simply get some time off of school, and continue to act out. If all students were talked to about what they did wrong and punished inside of school, there may be a chance to drop the percentage of kids that get in trouble. Yes, it may not be the school’s responsibility to punish the kid, but if they do not and neither do the parents, then who will? Giving out school suspensions may give the student that needs to be punished the most, time off from school, which is what they would prefer. It is time schools take more part in consequences with
