Is suspension really a punishment?

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01 Dec 2017, 8:13 am

I mean for very young children? Like kindergarten through 6th grade? In high school, I can see how suspension might be a punishment but for a grade schooler? After I had been suspended the first time and got to stay home from school, I CONSTANTLY was trying to get in trouble in order to get suspended again. My parents never let me watch TV or anything like that on the day I was suspended, but it didn't matter I was happy to be home, away from bullies.

I think the school did catch on because I did once receive an in-school suspension and that wasn't as bad as they made it out to be either. I was just in a supply classroom for most of the day, doing my usual schoolwork and a supply teacher would come in now and then to check on me. Again, I was by myself and away from the bullies so I actually kind of enjoyed it. So

Anyway, is suspension actually a punishment FOR the student who doesn't want to be there in the first place?

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01 Dec 2017, 8:27 am

...or is it a punishment for the parents of the suspended child, who now have to take time off work or pay for childcare?

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01 Dec 2017, 8:37 am

Perhaps they are punishing the parents which sends a message control your kid, raise them with some decency.

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01 Dec 2017, 5:01 pm

I always questioned how effective suspension was.
At my school, the kids who got suspended frequently often spent their days off school messing around in the park or loitering around town up to no good. Didn't really seem to teach them any sort of message.

I myself would prefer to see schools give them some kind of community service.

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