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Vanessa Reyes
Ms Trotter (4)
British Literature
12 March 2017.
What are alternative means of discipline that do not take students out of the learning
Ferguson, Christopher J. "Does Suspending Students Work?" Time. Time, 05 Dec. 2012.
In this article, Ferguson questions the idea of if suspending students from school really works as
a form of discipline. He worked with more than enough students to know that suspension does
not do any good to the students, he also took information from the Journal Of School Violence
written by Pamela Fenning. Ferguson continues to go on about the fact that giving students a
couple days of from suspension is not a form of punishment in the eyes of students, especially
those who are already against school. He mentions some alternative means of discipline that
some school partake in that will help this conflict from becoming a bigger issue. This article
helps support my statement that suspension is causing more harm to students and that many see it
since Ferguson mentions that schools give in-school suspension or Saturday suspension. I
learned that many school districts do not have the financial resources to come up with different
forms of punishment for students which could lead to academic failure. After reading this article
<https://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/182/over5.html
In this article, Peterson gives a list of 10 alternatives forms of discipline that do not
involve suspending students. At the end of his article he gives a different list of his references
used to help write the article such as The Color of Discipline and The Dark Side of Zero
Tolerance. Peterson talks about suspension making students academic learning progress harder
so many schools are beginning to review their discipline rules. Some of the alternative means of
discipline are; restitution, parent involvement, community service, in-school suspension etc. I
found this article very useful since it was packed with information on alternative means of
discipline that I was unable to come up with. With these different forms I could possibly bring
them to my own high school and even set up an interview with my principal to find out what his
Roter, Amy, Tim Villegas, PhD Manya Whitaker, Kathryn DeBros, John Katzman, and
Soon-to-be Counselor. "Types of School Discipline Policies and Their Long-Term Impact."
<https://www.noodle.com/articles/types-of-school-discipline-policies-and-their-long-term-impac
In this article, Roter begins by explaining how she is an ISS (in-school suspension)
teacher and proceeds to give different disciplinary techniques along with immediate and
long-term effects. At the end of her article she includes her list of resources she used for her
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research including National Association of School Psychologists. Roter gives four different
forms of discipline and gives detail on how each form works and the effects it can bring. She
talks about punitive techniques, zero tolerance, replacement techniques, and positive
reinforcement being possible forms that can be used other than having to suspend a student. This
article is useful for my project because not only does she give different forms of discipline but
Roter also gives more information beyond that, the long-term impact and the immediate efficacy
shows useful information explaining why the different forms could be good or bad which could
Adams, Jane Meredith. "Study: Suspensions Harm well-behaved Kids." EdSource. N.p.,
<https://edsource.org/2015/study-suspensions-harm-well-behaved-kids/72501
In this article, Adams goes over the topic of how suspension not only causes harm to the
student being suspended but also to the students in the classroom. After tracking students and
having multiple studies, they have found information backing up their initial thought. Adams
claims that the more suspensions throughout the semester the lower the scores were for the
non-suspended students. It makes students feels as if the school worries more about
crime/behavior control over relationships with students. This article provides more than enough
information as to why suspension now causes more harm to everybody else. With this
information I can again have interviews with my principal and show him why suspension should
be changed, if it causes harm to more people other than the one being suspended it should be
something we should avoid. Removing a delinquent from the classroom by suspending them is
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supposedly helping the others learn but is doing the exact opposite which I find helpful to use for
my project.
Healy, Cheryl. "Discipline and Punishment: How School Suspensions Impact the
Likelihood of Juvenile Arrest." Chicago Policy Review. N.p., 21 Apr. 2014. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.
<http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2014/03/26/discipline-and-punishment-how-school-suspensions
-impact-the-likelihood-of-juvenile-arrest/
In this article, Healy talks about how school suspension leads to most of the students
getting arrested. Most of her research is found by having studies with 1,000 plus students and
receiving information from From the School Yard to the Squad Car: School Discipline,
Truancy, and Arrest Healy explains how schools should be finding alternatives to suspension
and expulsion since students were twice as likely to be arrested in the times where they were
suspended and/or expelled. She claims that being forcefully removed from school has a link
connected to the juvenile justice system. This article is useful for my project because most
schools biggest priority is to keep the students safe but if suspending them could lead to being
arrested then that is not keeping us students safe. It shows exactly as to why schools should
removed suspension completely because it is not safe, either for the student being suspended or
for the non-suspended. If more schools knew that students who are suspended have a double
chance of being arrested it could possibly have them think twice the next time they decide if they