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My high school had in-school suspension. All your teachers would assign you a crapload of really boring coursework on whatever they were covering that day/week/however long you were suspended and you'd sit in a tiny grey room all by yourself and be have to do those awful assignments all day.

That's a good idea, because a lot of the types of kids who would get suspended, considered suspensions to be a reward...

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Pretty much. In theory, you miss schoolwork, like not getting paid for work, but a lot of kids who get suspended don't care about that anyhow. It really is only significant if your grades are good.

I got suspended for fighting in 10th grade, and it really WAS pretty much a vacation, although my mom made me paint some stuff. I ended up getting to make up the work anyhow since my dad went in and complained.

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I suppose if you hated school and your goal was to get a few days off and your parents didn't really care enough to stay at home with you make you do chores/make your suspension a punishment rather than a reward, then yeah, suspension would be fun.

But isn't that the bottom line anyway? Its the parents and not the schools.
If the parents are actively involved in their children's lives, talk to them on a regular basis, care about how they are doing in school, etc then they would know when their kids were getting in trouble and whether it was warranted or not.

Suspension in and of itself should not be the punishment. It should, rather, be considered as the school providing the opportunity for the parents to provide discipline. Therefore, if suspension does not work, it falls on the parents. It is not the school's responsibility to raise your kids, people.

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In general, the "problem kids" who are most likely to get suspended (not one-offs like Diamondeye's example) are the way they are because their parents aren't involved enough to begin with. A typical suspension isn't going to hit those students as hard.

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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For me, in school suspension caused me to get about 3 weeks of homework done in 2 days. I was apathetic about my grades, but it helped nonetheless, as I had basically 3 weeks of freetime.

In high school, I got sent home for 10 days for flipping the bird to a teacher. That sucked, as my parents were hardasses about me doing homework, not playing Counter-Strike.

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