Thompson: The Importance Of In-School Suspension
The Catalyst's Sarah Karp, in her ongoing account of the turnaround of Chicago's Marshall High School, explains how the school is seeking a balance between establishing order and not pushing out/counseling out more difficult students than is necessary. Karp describes successful in-house suspensions in some schools that allow schools to establish order while providing counseling. In one in-house program there was a ten-to-one student teacher ratio, and another had three adults assigned to the program so there was always a person available to counsel students. Marshall's in-