Well, here's another subject to touch on! Gee, mine would fit right into the catagory of disrupting the classrooms. As a parent you cannot make your child mind no matter what the age is. As a teacher, the same goes for them too. There is noone to blame but the child themselves. Noone picks and chooses what they do or say or how they act. They do it all on their own, even if you want to blame it on peer pressure, still not true. Kids are going to do what they want no matter who you are. They want to keep acting up for so long and yeah they are eventually going to get themselves expelled. Schools give kids so many breaks. It's not like they go, oh you acted up today, I'm having you expelled. Even though it does depend on the offense they committed. I don't always agree with the schools.
Especially when they keep writing up referrals on kids for stupid things that is rediculous to be wrote up about. They couldn't handle it on their own they have to write them up for it. Well, guess what, thats not true either. They do it cuz it is part of their policy they have to go by. You think the teachers like having to do this?
Maybe if you take everything away from a child in hopes to get a point acrossed and teach them a lesson will work. Oh wait, I tried that. They just didn't care. They want to be a brat, they will be a brat! That's putting it mildly. By the way, See the article bout the 14 year old boy? Thats an expelled student too!!!

Maby this number would be less if A. The kids parents wern't Janesvillians, B. Teachers wernt so ridiculously anal about every fricken thing...

all_iv_her since when do you know if teachers care or not. I am a teacher and I care tremendously for my kids and I know for sure MANY of my peers do too. But, here's the problem -- these kids that are getting expelled as well as the other minor disciplinary problems that we have (insert your own blame: parents, TV, schools, whatever)distract our attention away from the kids that really want to be there, the ones that need to be there, and the ones that have no one else other than the teachers that do care for them. So if at times it seems we don't care then those are probably the days we just don't have it in us to fight any more to teach the kids that want to learn while babysitting the kids that don't want to be there.
I tell my students, "just show me you care" and I don't care how smart, and talented you are or are not I will help you however I can. The ones that just don't care, too bad for them but I'll still try to teach them something even if it's to not fight at school because you could get expelled.

One more post stereotyping "todays kids" and a new record will be established. I'm on the phone right now with Guinness getting ready to document the record. Nice job Janesville!!

While working during the summer I actually heard a kid say something along the lines of, "I can't wait for school to start so I can get kicked out." It sure seems like some kids actually **enjoy** getting expelled.

Please note, the school board is not the court system. School is not there to fix everyone. If we start thinking it is, we're in trouble.
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Oh, and allwaysright, I look forward to debating you again. That was an unimaginably brilliant rebuttal. You covered all my main points with well-thought-out objections, and countered them with provocative ideas of your own.
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Oh, no, wait. You didn't. Never mind.

Geez, every school expells kids. Schools arent schools anymore. its the place u can walk down the hall and buy drugs right in the hallway. Teachers dont even care, kids skip. lol this is ridiculous

it seems that alot of kids just dont want to go to school anymore, so they look for ways to get expelled, because they know that their parents cannot kick them out of the house or wup their butts like we used to get ours wupped when we were kids, and alot of us turned out ok, because if they do social services will be at there door claiming neglect or abuse by the parents, so kids really take advantage of that as long as they can, even if it means getting kicked out of school, cause then they can do what they want while parents are at work.

unknown - you absolutely do not know! Have you been in a high school lately? Talk to some students who are there to learn and socialize rather than disturb, sell drugs, be disrespectful, and otherwise negatively affect the school learning environment. Some students to not have the right to ruin the school for others and they deserve to lose the privilege of a public education!

Yes, because we need to fill our prisons with juvenile school rule-breakers, instead of violent criminals. What a brilliant idea!