SUSPENSIONS AND EXPULSIONS, HAS ANYONE ASKED THE TEACHERS ?
Spurred by student and community groups demanding a less punitive student discipline system, a Chicago City Council Committee on Wednesday passed a resolution calling on Chicago Public Schools to reduce suspensions and expulsions by 40 percent.
The groups pushing for a less punitive approach want CPS to increase the use of “restorative justice programs”, which include everything from peer juries to determine student punishment to peace circles that bring together offenders and victims.
So, aldermen and “students and community groups” will now decide a new discipline system. How perfect. Has anyone asked the teachers for their input? Once again we see that unlike all professions known to man, people outside of the teaching profession are thought to know better than the teaching
The groups pushing for a less punitive approach want CPS to increase the use of “restorative justice programs”, which include everything from peer juries to determine student punishment to peace circles that bring together offenders and victims.
So, aldermen and “students and community groups” will now decide a new discipline system. How perfect. Has anyone asked the teachers for their input? Once again we see that unlike all professions known to man, people outside of the teaching profession are thought to know better than the teaching
