A massive discipline overhaul keeps students on campus while trying to improve behavior.
Dallas ISD is overhauling school discipline by eliminating the majority of suspensions. Students are instead sent to reset centers to work on behavior issues. “Our mindset is: we don’t kick kids out,” Kennedy-Curry Principal Shadaria Foster said.Editor’s note: This story is part of our focus on solutions put forward to tackle big and small social problems in our communities.
By 9 a.m. the following Monday, administrators pulled the students out of class and sent them to the school’s reset center, a cornerstone of Dallas ISD’s “Our mindset is: we don’t kick kids out,” Kennedy-Curry Principal Shadaria Foster said. “We don’t throw students out because we are all they have.” So far, data from the first semester show a dramatic decline in disciplinary action when compared to 2019-20, the last school year when most students were learning on campus.
In response to the demographic discipline breakdown, the district plans to review campus and student-level discipline data to determine where the most support is needed and assign resources accordingly, spokeswoman Robyn Harris said. Principle Shadaria Foster sits in the reset center where students can talk about their emotions and conflicts they are facing, Thursday, April, 14, at Kennedy-Curry Middle School, in Dallas, Texas. The district eliminated most suspensions last summer in an effort to tackle disproportionate discipline rates for students of color and instead opened Reset Centers where students can tackle behavioral issues on campus.
After 30 minutes in the center, Brown sent most of the students back to class. The majority acknowledged that fighting wouldn’t help the situation. If you had two or three staffers like Brown on every campus, for instance, schools could cover more ground. “We have to show test scores, well, show how well you are managing your classroom in good, equitable, effective ways,” Amran said.
Implementing a large-scale change in disciplinary procedures is a huge challenge and requires continuous coaching, Foster emphasized. The campus leaders said they didn’t want to send their students to alternative schools meant for severe offenses, but they also didn’t feel they had the resources in place to address bigger conflicts, like a large brawl.
“A central Reset Center is precisely counter to that goal,” trustee Joe Carreón said at the same board meeting. “We are taking kids out of school again.”
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