The Herald Bulletin

September 3, 2010

Letter: In-school suspension not the solution


— If teachers would spend as much time teaching as they would sending kids to in-school suspension for a small logo on a shirt, our kids might rank higher on tests, etc.

Don’t get me wrong. I support having a dress code, but if you are going to enforce it, enforce all the kids.

My child wore the same shirts the past two years and suddenly it is an issue. I would think that there were more important issues to deal with.

To top it off, you shouldn’t address an issue with one student in front of the whole class. Really, what kind of lesson/punishment is in-school suspension anyway? It’s absurd.

What happened to after-school detention or Saturday school? This is more of an effective punishment than just missing classes and you are still being provided education. I guess education isn’t important anymore.

Carla Combs

Anderson