The student’s act of violating school rules is the reason he or she is suspended.
Students are suspended for various reasons because schools are strictly enforcing their policies to benefit a better educational environment and students can learn from their mistakes.
Schools with greater suspensions may show an improvement of how our school administrators enforce their school rules.
The schools are actually striving for less suspensions and better student performance in school.
There could be various reasons why suspensions have increased in the past couple of years.
For example, there are more students with lack of discipline, parents are not being more responsible for their child’s behavior in different environments, or schools have different policies on how and why students should be suspended.
However, some do not agree with the increase in student suspensions.
Galvin Deleon Guerrero, chairman of the board’s School Reform Committee, says “just by reviewing the data, ‘abuses’ by principals and administrators were quite evident.”
It is evident that students who violate school rules should be suspended, although Mr. Deleon Guerrero says this is an abuse of the standards.
But we cannot blame our school administrators for their conduct on suspending students without our presence to observe their strategy in suspending students.
It is reasonable that our schools are trying to promote a better learning environment, although with the help of parents it would definitely be easier to reduce the suspension rate of students in our public schools.
JOEL B. TUDELA
Dandan, Saipan
