On Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 9:48:54 PM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:
A California Senate bill introduced last week would ban schools from suspending students who disrupt class or defy teachers—known as willful defiance suspensions.
Senate Bill 274 introduced by Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) said such suspensions lead to students dropping out and exacerbate learning loss at a time when many are still behind due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Skinner also said such suspensions disproportionately affect Black male students, citing a 2018 study that reported they are three times more likely to be suspended for willful defiance than the statewide average.
“SB 274 is based on a simple premise: students belong in school,” Skinner said in a Feb. 1 press release. “Instead of kicking them out of school, we owe it to students to figure out what’s causing them to act out and help them fix it.”
Meanwhile, the rest of the class has to find a way to function while being disrupted. It's pretty stupid, cuz once kids see nothing is being done to the disruptors....disruption will become the norm.
My local school district tried this BS a long time ago. It failed so quickly that they created an "alternate school", which was really a self study program with kids occupying a seat to get the state funding in return for a promise of a degree. Can't
say I think that was a great idea but at least the primary public school maintained a bit of decorum.
ScottW
You are correct. The top priority is the education of the rest of the students.
The distractions must be removed.
Woke equity based on racial outcomes is catering to the lowest common denominator and is a
race (no pun intended) to the bottom.
It is racist and anti-black, as it suppresses the majority of
black students, who are capable and interested in school,
by depriving them of a stable school environment.
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