Why School Suspensions Don’t Work

Now that students are returning to the in-person classroom, many teachers are finding behavior challenges to be more demanding than ever before and many schools are resorting to the quick and dirty fixes of detentions and suspensions. But these punitive, iron-fisted, exclusionary tactics have not only been shown to have no effect on future misbehavior, but also result in more learning loss and a negative school culture, rather than the supporting and nurturing environment our children need after the chaos of the year we've just come through