The school’s culture, socialization, and equity is a key element for producing the school’s purpose, curriculum, philosophy, and theoretical approach. Students cultural, income, and ethnic backgrounds are often used to pick the most suitable philosophy, theoretical approach, curriculum, and philosophy. While finding out what best suits the student’s diverse background, mistakes are destined to happen. Every school has their bump in the road when it comes to compromising with students of color and/or low SES students. With every effort, it is important that schools learn from not only the issues, as well as the students, and prevent the conflict from happening again.
At Concord Middle School, the number of suspensions are at an alarming high rate, especially coming from the Hispanic and African American students. With the school being …show more content…
In an effort to overcome the school’s issue, Concord Middle created a couple of alternatives to suspensions. One of the alternatives to suspensions was “Miner Bucks will be awarded to students as positive reinforcement and will be used in school Miner Buck store (Concord Middle School Improvement Plan, 2015).” Instead of adding more negative reinforcement, Concord Middle School decided to add more positive reinforcement. Another alternative used for positive reinforcement is, “Quarterly character awards will be given out to students at our quarterly honor roll ceremony (Concord Middle School Improvement Plan, 2015).” Concord Middle School not only target the students, but also made sure their teachers were making the right decisions when it comes down to suspending a student. In Concord Middle School’s goal action plan, it stated that staff were to teach and revisit students’ expectations throughout the year (Concord Middle School Improvement Plan,
At Concord Middle School, the number of suspensions are at an alarming high rate, especially coming from the Hispanic and African American students. With the school being …show more content…
In an effort to overcome the school’s issue, Concord Middle created a couple of alternatives to suspensions. One of the alternatives to suspensions was “Miner Bucks will be awarded to students as positive reinforcement and will be used in school Miner Buck store (Concord Middle School Improvement Plan, 2015).” Instead of adding more negative reinforcement, Concord Middle School decided to add more positive reinforcement. Another alternative used for positive reinforcement is, “Quarterly character awards will be given out to students at our quarterly honor roll ceremony (Concord Middle School Improvement Plan, 2015).” Concord Middle School not only target the students, but also made sure their teachers were making the right decisions when it comes down to suspending a student. In Concord Middle School’s goal action plan, it stated that staff were to teach and revisit students’ expectations throughout the year (Concord Middle School Improvement Plan,