School suspensions: Are they effective?

02-17-2010

By Jorge Barrientos/Bakersfield Californian

Kim Baker's son was supposed to be sitting out recess. But, according to a notice sent home, he cut in front of other students waiting to play tetherball, then kicked another's shin and "punched his hand into his other hand in a threatening manner." He was sent home and suspended from school the next day for disrupting school activities and defying authority of supervisors, the notice said. A week later, he was suspended again for throwing pencil lead at another student. Baker's beef? His son is only in the first grade. "Teachers took care of the problems when I went to school and explained to kids why they were in trouble," Baker said. "Suspensions, I think, only damage young kids' self-esteem." (more...)

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