Letters: When suspensions are good for students
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Re “Struggling with suspensions,” Column, May 18
It is encouraging to read of efforts to reduce the number of suspensions in the Los Angeles Unified School District. But I do have a comment about what Sandy Banks calls “grumbling like that from parents and teachers, who imagine good kids held hostage by troublemakers.”
This is a real problem, not something imagined.
To those non-educators who criticize suspensions for “willful defiance,” when was the last time you faced 35 students with a planned lesson only to have it disrupted by a student? Would you stop the lesson and begin a counseling session?
Even the few minutes it may take to deal with a disruptive student robs the others of instruction time.
Marty Wilson
Whittier
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