re: California bans suspending disruptive/defiant students

My mom works for the school in south Louisiana. Here is the current system of discipline:

If a student misbehaves, that student is given an infraction. It’s just a piece of paper recognizing that there’s an issue. There are no real consequences.

After 4 infractions, the student will get an office referral. The student will have a visit from the principal. The result may or may not be detention. Usually not.

After 3 office referrals, the student will be recommended for suspension. There will be a meeting between the principal and the parents. In this meeting the parents will call the teacher and principal liars or accuse them of being the reason the student misbehaves. The student won’t face consequences as a result.

So, with all this said, a student has to be corrected TWELVE times before any real consequence is even remotely on the table. The faculty is so afraid of getting blasted in the media, that they usually just drop the case on the word from parents that their kids will do better. Of course, it’s an empty promise.

This is why you have the problems with teachers that you do. They either give up and don’t want to deal with it so they just go through the motions and collect a check, try to do the right thing and get fired for it or turn out to be a fricking predator because a predator will put up with anything for the chance at getting a victim.

There is ZERO accountability for the students or parents. It’s always the school’s fault. Or society’s fault. It’s never their own fault.