California is close to banning schools from suspending disruptive kids

[Figueira]

Why should you suspend someone from being disruptive? It kills their education, gives them a free vacation for bad behavior and likely sends them down a bad path. They need to stay in school in some form and continue their education, take away recess and other liberties but the education should continue.

Their disruptions are hurting other students.

This is the biggest thing that's missing from these discussions.

That said, I don't know what the solution is.

[lfromnj]

Suspension isn’t bad enough of a punishment. I know peers who have gone through suspension and keep getting suspended again and again.

Because suspension depends on parents to parent which some of these kids parents refuse to.

[Person Man]

Why should you suspend someone from being disruptive? It kills their education, gives them a free vacation for bad behavior and likely sends them down a bad path. They need to stay in school in some form and continue their education, take away recess and other liberties but the education should continue.

Their disruptions are hurting other students.

This is the biggest thing that's missing from these discussions.

That said, I don't know what the solution is.

That's why you have detention instead. If they eventually end up mostly in detention, they need to go to a special school.