Schools, Prisons, and Social Implications of Punishment: Rethinking Disciplinary Practices
"Schools, Prisons, and Social Implications of Punishment: Rethinking Disciplinary Practices"
Pedro A. Noguera
Noguera argues that school punishment is often in the form of exclusion and is most prevalent for minorities especially Blacks and Latinos. This is very similar to adult punishment. Schools do not seem to try to change this pattern of ostracism. The need this punishment to keep control.
One principal even stated, "Kids like him just can't be helped." Students take on the labels that the people around them give. They therefore know that their education is compromised and will indeed live up to the expectations of defiance.
Students are "sorted" in schools based on academics and behavior. However, taking all the "behavior problems" out of classrooms does not diminish the behavior issues in classrooms. Other students step up to the task! In order to diminish classroom behavior issues, students need to be engaged in learning.
It should be possible to create school environments of high academic achievement and low discipline issues. But to attain this, all teachers need to realize that poor and affluent alike all deserve the right to education.
Pedro A. Noguera
Noguera argues that school punishment is often in the form of exclusion and is most prevalent for minorities especially Blacks and Latinos. This is very similar to adult punishment. Schools do not seem to try to change this pattern of ostracism. The need this punishment to keep control.
One principal even stated, "Kids like him just can't be helped." Students take on the labels that the people around them give. They therefore know that their education is compromised and will indeed live up to the expectations of defiance.
Students are "sorted" in schools based on academics and behavior. However, taking all the "behavior problems" out of classrooms does not diminish the behavior issues in classrooms. Other students step up to the task! In order to diminish classroom behavior issues, students need to be engaged in learning.
It should be possible to create school environments of high academic achievement and low discipline issues. But to attain this, all teachers need to realize that poor and affluent alike all deserve the right to education.
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