It seems that there is an “application” process, I don’t know about other requirements. I’d venture a guess though that since Moon is a magnet school that you have to apply to get into, they have a little more leeway in these kinds of things.
Well if you’re making ALL of the 136 students (regardless of PROOF) do that cleaning…then yeah, that seems quite contrary to what you were saying earlier…where proof was such an important element.
You seem to be hung up on the notion of suspension as a consequence. I said earlier that the word “suspension” while technically accurate, was not the best term to apply to what happened here. All of the kids from the cafeteria were sent home with a request to have their parents attend a meeting. I think (I could be wrong) this was more about getting parental involvement to deal with an on-going problem, than a true “suspension”. One way to get ALL of the parents to show up is to say that little Johnny can’t come back to school until you do.
I’m guessing (again, I could be wrong) that the 112 or so students who did NOT have serious behavior issues that warranted them performing community service will probably not even have the action listed as a “suspension” in their records.
Oh yes it does. I teach at a 80/20 Magnet/Traditional school. Basically, that means that 60% are bused in from outside the neighborhood, and all of those students are in the Magnet program (environmental studies). The remaining 40% are split evenly between the Magnet and Traditional programs. I teach in the Traditional program.
This creates 2 different environments in the same school. Traditional parents (in my experience) are difficult to contact and only come to the school when the kid is in major trouble. Some Magnet parents create problems.
Of course, the kids are also treated differently by our administrators. Magnet kids can do no wrong, Traditional kids can do no right. This leads to some of my kids feeling like they are “dummies” or “worthless” simply because they are Traditional. Granted, they are notorious for being hard to handle, but you at least have to give them a chance. Do you think Admin cares about the fact that most of our (my team’s) kids have very high math scores and are usually the best behaved in assemblies? NOOOO…
Our team (Go Wolves!) has found the key to dealing with that age group is firmness and consistency. If we can keep Traditional kids in line by running a tight ship in our classrooms and having high expectations for them, then a Magnet school should be able to do the same thing with better behaved students.
if that means suspending a bunch of kids, so be it. We have put a LOT of kids in a mass detention for trivial stuff simply because we “expected much more of them.” We also told them we didn’t want to see them in there again. IT WORKS!!!
I want to hear from all those in this thread who did do the bad stuff when they were 6th graders and got away with it because they had their parents faked out, and had the teachers hamstrung by their parents and how that made them better people and have more respect for authority…
