Why school suspensions don’t work [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 1/26/1612:00 PM

I never had a student change his behavior for the better because he was suspended. Most of the time students returned and reoffended. Time away from school seemed to exacerbate problems, not fix them.

As a public school leader, I was in charge of major disciplinary actions — suspensions and expulsions. My school was for older, disconnected youth, some with violent and criminal backgrounds. We had to suspend students for all types of reasons: theft, fighting, threatening, bringing a weapon to school.

[For more of this story, written by Stephanie Malia Krauss, go to http://jjie.org/why-school-sus...ns-dont-work/179369/]

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