Instead of suspensions, MORE oversight
Hi all, I'm going to propose a solution to the behavioral epidemic we have in the public school system in America. We have been using suspensions, both inside and outside, to try to encourage students to behave better, since 14 years ago when I started teaching. The problem with this solution is that students come to like inside, have days off where they are unsupervised at home when they have outside, and come back with no behavioral change. Here's what I propose. We need people who are trained as counselors, yoga instructors, philosophy, psychology, or some related field, one on one, to reflect and help students make behavioral goals before they can return to class. It needs to be one on one, and it needs to be by very well qualified folks, because they are dealing with the most fragile, most difficult, and therefore most needy students we serve. Few people want that job, so we have to pay better than a regular ed teacher. Students would att...