Only because it will get to your papers and parents will be mad or that’s a sign that you did something really bad?
As a kid I remember seeing it in a movie for the first time and being genuinely surprised how a couple free from school days could be a punishment?
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Well schools caught on to this. Now a days there is in school suspension.
Being suspended from school isn’t just “a couple free days.”
Homework will pile up and you’ll miss new material, meaning you can fall behind. It also means that, provided you’re young enough, your parents either have to stay at home with you or find other childcare.
For a kid, they don’t care, they didn’t want to be there. But if you come back after two days and everyone has new in-jokes that you don’t understand or something else happened while you were away, it can be devastating. Plus it can really harm your social standing as being “that one kid,” who had to be pulled out of school.
I don’t why yall saying school suspension is bad, if there’s a strong typhoon coming, would it be reasonable to send students to school even tho there’s major flooding outdoors? The budget for the Flood Control Projects are unable to implement due to corrupt goverment officials and DPHW which they stole billions of pesos to be kept in their wallets. They’re using the taxpayers’ money to fund their lavish lifestyles bruh.
The suspension is just as much for the school/teachers/classmates getting a break from a kid as it is punishing them. If the parent can’t simply offload their kid onto the school and actually has to take responsibility, then they’re also going to make sure their kid can’t just play around on their suspension.
If the kid is really that disruptive, then everyone else can learn in peace. It’s a control measure instead of a direct consequence. Besides, there’s usually additional punishment from the school on top of just making sure they don’t come in for a couple school days.
It’s more about incapacitation than punishment. If somebody who has been incredibly disruptive, getting into fights, bullying people etc… a suspension gives everyone else in schools a few days reprieve as school administrators can pressure parents to discipline their kid.
When I was in school, they almost never did traditional suspensions. It was usually in school suspension, where you sit in a room by yourself with a teacher all day. Or if what they did was especially bad, they’d get sent to an alternative school that had very harsh restrictions on students. It was kinda like juvie-lite.
It’s as much about removing the problem kid as it is about punishing them.
In school suspension is no big deal.
Well, it can cause the student to fall behind on your classes and school is how you see your friends and what you do when you’re a kid. It can be pretty depressing when you miss out on that. But the main point of it is to keep disruptive students away so that others may learn. The majority of students want to learn and be productive. They shouldn’t be punished by unruly students.
Could be wrong, pretty sure suspensions go on your school record. So if applying to college then some will hold it against you
It was bad when I was in school in the 50s and 60s. You were seen as a very bad kid. There was nothing cool about it.
Yeah they make you do it in school these days. Just sit in a room all day bored to tears. You’re right that staying at home was positively an incentive for bad kids back in the day.
It goes on your permanent record and your transcript. That can affect college admissions and employment. I knew an incredibly talented adolescent (think perfect a capella Whitney Houston with Lucille Ball’s physical comedy) who was denied admission to a performing arts magnet school due to the number of suspensions on her K-8 record.
“I hope you know, that this this will go down on your PERMANENT RECORD!”
You miss out on instruction, you don’t get to make up the work, and it’s one more step before they kick you out permanently (expulsion).
There is a bit of an aim to inconvenience/involve your parents so that they step in and punish you as well.
So when I worked with the discipline team at a high school OSS was only for violence. Two reasons:
So that was the kicker I think. Parents hated being inconvenienced. Now suddenly not only do they have to deal with their kid at the house but they also for sure have to come in at some point which is disruptive to their lives. Inconveniencing parents was (usually) a quicker way to get kids to listen because while they don’t respect teacher or staff they’re much more likely to not want to upset their parents.
As a very side note: a lot of the kids were pissed off getting OSS. Not only cause it meant having to deal with angry parents but I taught in an area with a high level of poverty and if I’m completely honest I think the kids wanted to be inside the school because we had AC.
You weren’t excused from the work you missed, so your grades would reflect poorly due to that.
Though the typical person being suspended doesn’t care about grades anymore, amd thus in school suspension is a thing.
tl;dr – My sister was attacked in high school, got suspended for defending herself and it cost her her spot in an Ivy League college. It’s a niche case, but they do go on your record, and depending on for what and why they can have consequences for further education.
Some chick attacked my sister at lunch in her junior year. She had been on track for early admittance to one of the Ivy League.
Because of zero tolerance, when my sister fought back they both got written up and both got suspensions for fighting. This now had to go on her college application. It cost her the spot, despite her teachers and school staff all writing letters vouching for her character.
She also had to write and include a five page summery of the incident, the aftermath, how it affected her and how she would mitigate some bitch grabbing her by the hair and raking a set of fake claws down her face next time, should a similar incident occur.
Her teachers fought hard to get the suspension taken off her record due to her GPA and exemplary record, but the Principle refused.
Everyone was pissed, but no one was as devastated as my sister. Her entire world revolved her academics, this had been her dream.
Somewhat luckily, she was able to spend a year at our state college and when she applied the following year she was accepted, and a few years later graduated Summa cum laude.
When I was in high school, a true “stay home” suspension was very serious. Most schools used it as the last step before, or even in preparation for expulsion.
The most serious bit was that suspensions got reported to colleges when you applied, and could seriously harm your chances of getting in.
You also had to face your parents, who were told exactly why they’d lost a day of child care. If they believed in any kind of discipline, you were definitely not getting a fun day off.
I don’t think out of school suspension is used too often…unless it’s for fighting or something that harms someone else in some way and would require them to be searated from school…for a week or two, if not permanently.
It’s certainly not a punishment for the child; but can be hell on parents.
Suspensions add up and after a certain number (this varies by district) you can be kicked out (expelled) from the school. Then your parents have to find another school to enroll you in and will most likely have to provide transportation to and from that school since it’s no longer the school you live closest to.
It always felt like less a punishment for the student and more of a break for the teachers and other kids who have been having to deal with whatever behavior prompted the suspension. At least I always felt relieved not to have them around whenever a troublemaker got suspended.
Get suspended enough times and you might get expelled so…there’s that.
It wasn’t.
Source: me, I got suspended a lot. Like, a lot.
Yep they wanted to suspend me for smoking on campus( outside) and my mother said – she’d love to be home for two days! That’s no punishment. So they just let it go. I stayed at school
You have to keep up with your work and homework in the meantime, and it also goes onto your record.
I had in-school suspension a few times for tardiness because I couldn’t do lunch detention or after school detention because of extra curriculars and I forewent having lunch in order to take more AP classes. That was a headache on its own.
Our entire educational system, maybe even our entire society, is founded on the idea that parents will punish children for their misdeeds in the school. The traditional punishments the school gives are meant primarily to inform the parents of what their children did, so they can be punished at home. The parents and teachers form a monolithic wall of adult authority to restrain the child’s negative impulses and encourage them in a positive direction.
This stopped working at some point and that’s why the whole system is breaking down.
You won’t learn
When I was in school, back in the late 1900s, if you got suspended you couldn’t make up any missed work—you automatically got a zero for it. Granted, most kids who got suspended didn’t really care about their grades anyway, so it wasn’t much of an incentive to avoid suspension.
We also had what we called an “In-School Suspension” (what most places called “Detention”), and it got used more as time went on. You were kept in a study hall from the time class ended (2:10 PM for us) until 5:00 PM when the late buses ran. I think there was a 2:1 ratio between out-of-school and in-school suspension—two in-school days counted as one out-of-school day.