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Post by Bonobo on Nov 21, 2015 23:52:57 GMT 1
That`s amazing that I have frequently read about suspension in US and UK schools in my English textbooks, but so far I haven`t found the rational explanation of the punishment. So, a student gets, let`s say, one week suspension and isn`t allowed to go to school for 7 days. What for?
I suppose it has been designed to make the student fall behind with school work, which should lead to failed exams and eventually to dropping out of school. Teachers want to get rid of troublemakers and suspension is a good means to achieve it in the long run. Am I right?
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Post by jeanne on Nov 22, 2015 0:36:14 GMT 1
That`s amazing that I have frequently read about suspension in US and UK schools in my English textbooks, but so far I haven`t found the rational explanation of the punishment. So, a student gets, let`s say, one week suspension and isn`t allowed to go to school for 7 days. What for? I suppose it has been designed to make the student fall behind with school work, which should lead to failed exams and eventually to dropping out of school. Teachers want to get rid of troublemakers and suspension is a good means to achieve it in the long run. Am I right? I think initially suspension began as a way to impress upon parents the seriousness of their child's misbehavior. The point was that their child would be deprived of a week's worth of valuable education. What tends to happen is that many parents nowadays see it as just an inconvenience (though I am sure there are good parents who punish the child for being suspended, etc.), but the child sees it as a vacation from school! To eliminate this "vacation time" mentality, what is common practice in my area of the U.S. is "in-school suspension," (what we called ISS in the high school I worked in), where the child attends school, is responsible for all the work that is going on in the classroom, but must spend the entire day in a small ISS room with a supervisor who monitors their work. They cannot have any contact with their friends during that time; even meals are sent up to them, they cannot go to the cafeteria at lunch time. Out of school suspension still exists, but mostly for cases where it must be determined if the child is a danger to others. Often, if they have physically hurt someone, they will not be allowed back in school until there are professional opinions that state it is safe for the student to return. (In my school, the ISS Supervisor was a burly former professional football player with a loud "bark", so the kids didn't dare cross him...but they all liked him and enjoyed talking to him about his football career while they were in ISS. So...was it really a punishment afterall???) |
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Post by Bonobo on Nov 22, 2015 1:05:10 GMT 1
1 I think initially suspension began as a way to impress upon parents the seriousness of their child's misbehavior. The point was that their child would be deprived of a week's worth of valuable education.2 but the child sees it as a vacation from school! 3 To eliminate this "vacation time" mentality, what is common practice in my area of the U.S. is "in-school suspension," (what we called ISS in the high school I worked in), where the child attends school, is responsible for all the work that is going on in the classroom, but must spend the entire day in a small ISS room with a supervisor who monitors their work. They cannot have any contact with their friends during that time; even meals are sent up to them, they cannot go to the cafeteria at lunch time. 4 Out of school suspension still exists, but mostly for cases where it must be determined if the child is a danger to others. Often, if they have physically hurt someone, they will not be allowed back in school until there are professional opinions that state it is safe for the student to return. 5 (In my school, the ISS Supervisor was a burly former professional football player with a loud "bark", so the kids didn't dare cross him...but they all liked him and enjoyed talking to him about his football career while they were in ISS. So...was it really a punishment afterall???) 1 Yes, today most kids view education as extremely valuable.  2 Yes, that`s what most Polish youngsters would think. They would misbehave on purpose to be suspended. 3 That`s a clever solution. I like it. 4 Another clever one. 5 Like that one?:  PS. Thanks a lot, now I know what I didn`t know. |
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Post by jeanne on Nov 22, 2015 1:24:24 GMT 1
5 Like that one?: PS. Thanks a lot, now I know what I didn`t know. Yes...sort of like that guy. |
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