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You couldn't have come up with a sufficient punishment to teach him the same lesson? You could even voluntarily pull him out and home school him for a week if y

You couldn't have come up with a sufficient punishment to teach him the same lesson? You could even voluntarily pull him out and home school him for a week if you wanted.

frankharv 7y ago
Think of school as part of your childrens early socialization tests. You can only instill the best into your child. When they leave the nest they need to be guided into the correct social path. Otherwise you end up with a society of sociopaths. That is what school suspension does. It is a small coarse correction for teaching children right from wrong.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  How exactly does suspension teach children that what they did was wrong?
  - catalogia 7y ago
    I'd wager adults suddenly deviating from their normal routine because of something you did tends to induce a sense of severity for most kids. Perhaps not for the shittiest kids, but most kids understand when adults are no longer laughing at their 'shenanigans'. There are, of course, other ways to accomplish this. I was "scared straight" as a young teen when my mother cancelled her plans for the evening so she could go talk with my teachers after school about my behavior, which wasn't severe enough to warrant suspension but was nevertheless bad enough to disturb my parents and teachers. Ideally the kid is set back on a good path before their behavior becomes severe enough to warrant suspension, but sometimes (probably most often because of poor parenting) this doesn't happen.
- thrwaway69 7y ago
  Sounds to me that suspension for no reason teaches them to be sociopathic... but you are free to explain why small kids will take suspension as the correct signal for behaving more empathically towards other. Wouldn't that lead to encouraging punitive justice as society does right now? Is that the correct non sociopathic path?
- learc83 7y ago
  Sending them home where they don't have to do school work teaches them right from wrong? The only way that suspension is punishment is if the parents punish their kid for being suspended.

You couldn't have come up with a sufficient punishment to teach him the same lesson? You could even voluntarily pull him out and home school him for a week if you wanted.

frankharv 7y ago

Think of school as part of your childrens early socialization tests. You can only instill the best into your child. When they leave the nest they need to be guided into the correct social path. Otherwise you end up with a society of sociopaths. That is what school suspension does. It is a small coarse correction for teaching children right from wrong.

saagarjha 7y ago
How exactly does suspension teach children that what they did was wrong?
- catalogia 7y ago
  I'd wager adults suddenly deviating from their normal routine because of something you did tends to induce a sense of severity for most kids. Perhaps not for the shittiest kids, but most kids understand when adults are no longer laughing at their 'shenanigans'. There are, of course, other ways to accomplish this. I was "scared straight" as a young teen when my mother cancelled her plans for the evening so she could go talk with my teachers after school about my behavior, which wasn't severe enough to warrant suspension but was nevertheless bad enough to disturb my parents and teachers. Ideally the kid is set back on a good path before their behavior becomes severe enough to warrant suspension, but sometimes (probably most often because of poor parenting) this doesn't happen.
thrwaway69 7y ago
Sounds to me that suspension for no reason teaches them to be sociopathic... but you are free to explain why small kids will take suspension as the correct signal for behaving more empathically towards other. Wouldn't that lead to encouraging punitive justice as society does right now? Is that the correct non sociopathic path?
learc83 7y ago
Sending them home where they don't have to do school work teaches them right from wrong? The only way that suspension is punishment is if the parents punish their kid for being suspended.