Why don't teachers just kick the bad kids out of school?

Question

The bad kids disrupt a healthy learning envronment for the other children. Why don't teachers just get rid of the bad kids once they reach 16. You give them a few chances and then just ask them to leave. Tell them they aren't permitted anymore. Maybe instead of the "No child left behind" system, we could start a "no good child left behind" system.

When the parents call and ask why their kids aren't at school, the school should say, "I'm sorry, we have tried and tried to get your child to do work and pay attention, but we can't babysit your monster anymore. We have decided to let him/her go." Of course...this happens after it is obvious the regular school discipline isn't working anymore...

Answer 1

I completely agree with you. I feel a flame burning inside when the bad kids goof around. 3 times, one of them has rippied my lined paper out of my binder, because they forgot. I have caught people copying my homework twice, and just last week, some random girl tried to break into my locker : (

Answer 2

Nothing is that simple.

First of all the age of consent is 18 not 16.

Second teachers are not in control of who stays and who goes that is mandated by the district and there are several steps that need to be taken before a student is removed from the regular school population.

Usually is they are a bahavior or a danger they are sent to a continuation school.

Can you image what the cities would be like if we had a bunch of uneducated untrained 16 year old running the streets. The best thing to do is try to reach these kids and turn them around and get them to realize the importance and value education. Not turn our back and give up on them!

Answer 3

Because our President was a poor student and a bad kid and developed the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND educational program because he still harbors feelings of inadequacy stemming from his lackluster educational career.

Not only are the disruptive kids allowed to stay in school, but it is nearly impossible to suspend or expel them. I have seen instances where students have assaulted teachers (my wife for one) and the school refused to act because they did not want to be labeled an AT RISK SCHOOL. The student was given an "in-house" suspension.

To make matters worse, the teachers must teach down to the lowest level, which holds back gifted students. This is all so Mr. Bush can feel smart when he reads to kindergarten classes while terrorists attack our country. I am sure he felt right at home when he pissed his pants in front of all those students.

Answer 4

Well the problem is the way it's set up, the public schools should be set up in a more loose sort of format so that children who don't want to learn don't have an effect on those who do. The current class structure and grading system are all stupid, for example homework papers, students are held accountable for work that is a certain means of learning the information that may or may not work for them, as opposed to whether or not they actually learn the information.

What they should do is have all different means of learning the subject material available to the students, homework, books, videos, audio cassettes, personal notebooks, etc.. however, no student should be held accountable for a specific means of learning the information nor should any means for it be mandatory, students simply learn the information as appropriate for them, and then show they know it through essays and tests, and if they don't learn to manage themselves, they fail.

Answer 5

If you removed problem children from the schools you are ultimately determining their fate. It can be a major disruption but most of these kids are acting out for a reason. The schools with assistance from the court and make a psychologist should determine why the children are acting out instead of just removing them. That way you dont force a kid into dropping out of school at an early age and then later ***** about how you have to pay for these uneducated people when you give them welfare money.

Answer 6

Hello?! This isn't the TEACHER'S decision anymore!!!!!!!!

Every school I work at has a hierarchy of infractions and punishments which the principal and vice principal enforce. We have kids kicked out of school all the time, they go from school to school and end up in charter schools, special programs and yes, on the street! But like all the other answers say,where are you going to put them eventually? Are you willing for your tax dollars to build juvenile detention centers or do you want them roaming the streets?This isn't rural America where they can just go back and work on the farm!
I am concerned that you also must say, why don't parents kick their kids out too, "We are tired of your attitude ship out"...great way to solve problems, flush 'em, sort of like old people when they aren't useful----disposable, right?

Answer 7

Thank you! School has lost almost all educational purporse. It is now a place for kids to hang out, find dates, all of that crap. It is important for people to deveople in High School, but enough is enough. If a child is bad, then why should they get the right to attend school. So many kids in my school are bad, and they dont even get suspended. I think part of it is because the more kids who graduate, the beter the school looks. The Princeple at my school will over turn the grades of kids who did no work at all. Its unfair to us good students. I dont know why the teachers have to put up with it

Answer 8

If that were the case. I would not have finished school. I suffered from some mild learning disabilities. I was never mean to other students, but I required the teachers to do more work. I am sure some of them would have loved to not have me in the classroom. Although, most of my teachers liked me. I have since went on to college and have started my own consulting firm. Plus these students also have a legal right to be educated.

Answer 9

I think there should be a separate class room for the disruptive students. They should get counselling and the right help to improve themselves. Weather it be a problem at home or a mental problem, if it is not addressed and helped then kicking them out of the street will just cause more problems elsewhere.

Answer 10

I'd love to know that. I thought they used to do that? Did it change in recent years?
The reason it came to my attention was that there was a boy in my son's 3rd grade class who was so bad, he sat in the office outside of the principal's door for 7 months of the 9 months of school (the first 2 months was spent doing normal disciplinary actions). He just couldn't be controlled and the mother laughed about it. I know this because she lives 2 houses down from me.
He finally did leave the school, but not until he decided to go live with his dad instead of his mom.
I totally agree with you...because I'm sick of people who think that it's the school's responsibility to raise their kids.