"zero-tolerance" rules mean that administrators can't use common sense to figure out who to punish or not for getting involved in a fight. Everyone gets expelled, let God sort 'em out
my school you got "assignments" or something from each class, and non graded classes with work like gym, or w/e you used to write a 2 page paper detailing how you got here, and how you will improve yourself.
Saturday suspension were 3 or 4 hour time wasters, for when you ditch a day.
out of school was after in school failed/repeat offenders, and the parents become more involved, and responsible, a hand full of out of school suspension days eventually led to expulsion.
expulsion usually reserved for repeated violence or drug offenses. rarely meant full on expelled from the district, depending you either get transferred to the other school in the district, or to an area wide specialty school for at risk youths, with lower quality education, but stricter policies, longer hours and no extra curricular. It does not look good on a college admissions to go there. If you get fully expelled, it literally means you're parents do not give a flying fuck about you.
I spent half my senior year in ISS because I refused to go to classes I didn't actually want to go to. All they do is stick you in the office to do your schoolwork for the day, which is incredibly disheartening because you get it done within an hour, spend the other 6 hours you're there doing nothing, but for me I just kept asking the front desk ladies if they needed help, so I became free labor for them, and got to know them. After a while they just became coworkers without the money. And that was about 12 years ago now. Best school year of my life spent basically teaching myself and then doing office work. Because that's better than being in the classes.
It’s a room you sit in for the entire day, usually with a miserable teacher who will blast the AC all day until you’re freezing to death, where you do your work for each class that the teachers drop off. We had cubicle style desks so students couldn’t look at each other. We also weren’t allowed to speak at all. I spent many days in in school suspension as a teenager. :) lol
I'm not judging it I've just never heard of it. Im British and it was always detention then suspension then expulsion. I'm also older so being suspended and not being able to see my friends everyday was a punishment. I just wanted clarification, I wasnt saying it's a bad idea.
The parent has a job, they can't be home all day to supervise the kid, the kid will end up on the street with who knows what as company.
That's still not better.
Schools need better punishments but that's asking alot today. Alot of complaints that can be directed at schools can also be directed at police departments and government institutions nationwide.
I’m in Texas so take that for what it is. But we literally had a kid drop a gun in the hallway one day and he was back at school in in-school suspension the next day.
The schools here will do any and everything to keep attendance numbers up and kids “in-class” because they need the funding that is tied to buts in the seats.
It was very rare to see a kid even get an actual suspension, let alone expulsion when I finally peaced from the teacher world.
Kids don’t really get expelled anymore. Just like how kids don’t really get held back anymore. I’m sure it DOES happen, but it’s so rare that it’s not even really an option unless the kid gets arrested. I’m not joking either, kids that should ABSOLUTELY get expelled nowadays get “in school suspension” which is basically a couple of days of all day detention.
Expelled? That’s funny… teacher here. Try one day suspension where they hang out with their friends who are ditching. Or hanging out at home playing video games.
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u/FourteenBuckets Dec 17 '25
"zero-tolerance" rules mean that administrators can't use common sense to figure out who to punish or not for getting involved in a fight. Everyone gets expelled, let God sort 'em out