TO END PUNITIVE, EXCLUSIONARY DISCIPLINE, WE’RE GOING TO NEED
NEW LENSES, PRACTICES, AND POLICIES. YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
We are in the midst of a societal and public health crisis. We are losing our most vulnerable kids, largely due to perspectives that are outdated and counterproductive, and disciplinary practices that are punitive and exclusionary.
With each time-out, detention, suspension, expulsion, paddling, restraint, seclusion, and arrest at school, there are children who aren’t getting the help they need and are being pushed away from caregivers who could instead be helping them.
The cost to all of us is profound. Overwhelmed, discouraged educators. Frustrated, desperate parents. Expensive placements. Disenfranchised, marginalized, alienated kids. A pipeline to prison.
It doesn’t have to be this way.