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Re: In School Suspension Programs
Posted by C.S on 2/22/07

    I want to comment on these two different statements below...

    [...A student who misbehaves should not be given detention during class
    time. This detention should be set on Saturday, which is really
    more punishment for the student. ........

    .......I believe that ISS should be a learning process for the student. Most
    ISS policies only "babysit" the student, they do nothing to help curve
    future occurances of innappropriate behavior....]

    I am the ISS cordinator (slash) security guard for our small k-12 Alabama
    school. These two comments are exactly right, many people in my position
    tend to be babysitters, rather than counselers/enforcers for lack of a
    better term. I personally did some research and found lots of material
    dealing with character education, on several grade levels, with different
    themes to work on. Sometimes the students will finish their work early or
    not have any assignments at all. I keep a full supply of character ed.
    worksheets to give them. I also keep valuable "Thoughts of the Day" posted
    around the room and occasionally I will ask the students to write me a
    story or examples using one of the sayings. You would be surprised at how
    much a student will open up and be honest answering questions about peer
    pressure, or drug use; things along those lines. The way I have to look at
    this group of kids is the simple fact, what if this were my child? What
    would I do to try and help, rather than punish?

    Secondly, Saturday school sounds like a wonderful idea. But for schools
    like ours, half the families around this rural area would not pay for
    Saturday school. Nor would they put forth the extra effort to see that
    their child had transportation. There would be more things involved too,
    like with the opening of the school building. My principal doesn't want to
    drive to work on the weekend, no more than we do. Plus there are rules and
    regulations that deal with having access to the school without an
    administrator present. And in my opinion, if the parents funded the whole
    opperation, the ISS "teacher" wouldn't have state insurance and retirement
    as we do now (In Alabama). Again, I want to say it's a wonderful idea, and
    I can see why you would suggest it, but I doubt we will ever see it a
    reality. :)

     
     

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