Diane Wiley wrote: > Did anyone else reading the paper this week have a fit when they saw > that 20,000 kids were suspended in Minnehappiness last year? We have > about 48,000 students in the district. I know that some of these are > repeats, but still.... Around 400 kindergartners, over 1000 2nd > graders. This is lunacy. How can sending kids home send a message that > is anything but bad. Whatever happened to detention in-school? Anyone > connected with the schools have anything to say that makes sense about > this? This seems to me to be an extremely lousy policy.
I believe that there should be one or more "study halls" or rooms where students should be sent temporally for disciplinary reasons. If students continue to be a problem in these situations they should be sent to separate "continuation schools" and if they fail there they should be turned over to juvenile authorities. Suspension as a disciplinary procedure is stupid and dangerous (putting kids out on the streets as punishment is ridiculous). Michael Atherton Prospect Park _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
