Introduction
Having a negative school experience can be catastrophic for a young person. Being expelled from a comprehensive high school can be the catalyst for a student to academically disengage. Students who have been expelled are considered at-risk because they have engaged in risky behaviors that have led to the student to be expelled.
School district in California are mandated to provide expelled students with an education, which in most cases students are placed in an alternative education setting with in the school district or county office of education programs. Students when placed in these alterative education settings must comply and meet the terms of their expulsion to be able to return to their home school. One mayor concern is that students may become disconnected and disengaged with their school and see the expulsion process as a punishment which can lead to eventually dropping out of school and not completing their high school education (Bayne, 2013).
Once a youth drops out of school, they leave a controlled school environment and they are often difficult to reach in the community. As a result, it is a challenge to provide …show more content…
School disengagement is seen as a trajectory that unfolds over time leading to students not completing their high school education. Movement along this trajectory is related to age-graded transitions, such as a successful or unsuccessful transition to adulthood (Henry et al., 2012). Several indicators of disengagement point to parent–teen difficulties: teen anger, conflict, self medication, delinquency, truancy, moral disengagement and contact with law enforcement and eventually not complete their high school education (Hooven, Pike, & Walsh, 2013; Salzinger, Feldman, Rosario, & Ng-Mak, 2010). Early school disengagement not only leads to drop out of school but also leads to negative behavior trajectories of drug use and criminal
Having a negative school experience can be catastrophic for a young person. Being expelled from a comprehensive high school can be the catalyst for a student to academically disengage. Students who have been expelled are considered at-risk because they have engaged in risky behaviors that have led to the student to be expelled.
School district in California are mandated to provide expelled students with an education, which in most cases students are placed in an alternative education setting with in the school district or county office of education programs. Students when placed in these alterative education settings must comply and meet the terms of their expulsion to be able to return to their home school. One mayor concern is that students may become disconnected and disengaged with their school and see the expulsion process as a punishment which can lead to eventually dropping out of school and not completing their high school education (Bayne, 2013).
Once a youth drops out of school, they leave a controlled school environment and they are often difficult to reach in the community. As a result, it is a challenge to provide …show more content…
School disengagement is seen as a trajectory that unfolds over time leading to students not completing their high school education. Movement along this trajectory is related to age-graded transitions, such as a successful or unsuccessful transition to adulthood (Henry et al., 2012). Several indicators of disengagement point to parent–teen difficulties: teen anger, conflict, self medication, delinquency, truancy, moral disengagement and contact with law enforcement and eventually not complete their high school education (Hooven, Pike, & Walsh, 2013; Salzinger, Feldman, Rosario, & Ng-Mak, 2010). Early school disengagement not only leads to drop out of school but also leads to negative behavior trajectories of drug use and criminal