School suspensions don't stop violence – they help students celebrate it
- Written by Charles Bell, Assistant Professor, Illinois State University
The code of the street – where respect is won by fighting – often follows children into school.Pixel-Shot/www.shutterstock.comWhen school officials suspend students, the idea is to maintain a safe environment and deter violence and other problematic behavior on the school campus.
But when I interviewed 30 children in southeast Michigan...
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