Common App Removes Discipline Section

[sportingdirector]

Getting suspended for skipping class is like cutting your tires because the other one popped

[Xaeram]

“I dream of a Day Where Everyone Will be Treated Equally”



I wrote this comment along time ago, I don’t know what I was thinking

[den]

Also, kids do stupid shit. What they got suspended for in middle school or freshmen year is in no way representative of who they are as a senior. Plus a suspension is rarely worth missing weeks of education.

Not to mention people really do suspend for dumb reasons; chewing gum, phone out in class, things that may be annoying but not worthy of losing weeks of school over. I almost got suspended myself in MS for walking over to see a fight. Was not recording or anything. I cried in the office but I got off because I otherwise had no consistent record of misbehavior.

Like shit I agree walking to see fights shouldn’t be encouraged but that definitely wasn’t worth ISS 😂

[Rpoti]

In the part with the rule breaking stuff one of them was “bullied”… that’s super accurate

[corvus]

Schools also seem to handle discipline differently as well
I once got in school suspension for throwing a paper airplane of the second floor. But when I go to another school and I get caught nearly breaking into the school's firewall system within the first year, they simply talk with me and let me go because I'm "a good student"

[rgamer]

Finally people can be forgiven on what they did in like 3rd grade

[kellychristian]

Yk something funny, I actually got suspended from school in 5th grade because I apparently I made a boy cry over a swing.
My fake friends did it and blamed it I'm me and a random girl.
Im still home schooled to this day

[abi.x]

The fact that silly things we did as kids affects our college applications is just ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!

[PossiblyCloudHead]

I find it the opposite in my school since they are so afraid to be called racist..

[thisis_mudchute]

if getting bullied is a violation, my list of violations would be like really long

[r.rodriguez]

I have a hard time believing the kids who were disciplined more didn't deserve it.

[AndrewJF]

Problem is tho, statistics can be easily manipulated or shown in a correlation not causation manner. The only way to deem something as truly "racist" you need a non-biased poll of the people commiting the actions to admit truthfully if they were racist.

[charlieandhisantics]

Honestly I always felt like black kids in my school were treated worse than others. Now, I'm white, so I can't speak on my own experience, but there were a handful of black kids in each grade and we were pretty okay friends. I'd talk to them in class, and only they would get in trouble. I'd be swearing like a sailor at lunch, but they use the f word once and they'd get detention. I knew people who'd regularly get into fights over dumb shit, I knew people who'd been bullied for over 6 years for being trans, I knew people who'd sexually harass random girls on the bus.
Guess who'd get in trouble more? The people who had no moral standard, or the black kids literally just being teenagers?

[Tomio_]

Pov: my school. A white guy (in his final year) can purposely lift up and peak under the skirts of the girls (in their first/second year), but I’m not allowed to have my hair curly because it ‘looks like an Afro’ (‘ethnic’ hairstyles aren’t allowed at my school).

[buran]

I'm from Cali and it's the literal opposite. Reverse racism is still racism

[jungwonaa]

I was once suspended because I ate a chocolate bar bought from the school cafeteria outside of the cafeteria. I was eating the chocolate bar in the tech deck (just somewhere my friends and I usually hang out in lunch) and this choir teacher that tought my friend came to us and said to follow her. So we basically followed her to the middle school office and we had to write our name and our grade in a post-it. This woman said she would send an email to our year head or the middle school head (I can’t exactly remember who) and that if we get caught on eating something out of the cafeteria again, we would have to eat lunch with the year head/school head from now on. It was really a whole nightmare for me getting caught by a not-so-happy choir woman. I couldn’t really understand her cuz there were even students that took some kind of nicotine thing in class and the teacher said nothing. The teacher you get caught by is really the most important thing. How could eating a chocolate bar in lunch out of the cafeteria be such a big thing that I HAVE TO TALK WITH THE YEAR HEAD

[WhisperXK]

I went to a black majority highschool. The black kids got punished more (especially by black teachers) because on average they get aggressive, loud or just ignore teachers, most the white kids ever do was apologize or act rude. It may be anecdotal but that'd been my experience

[youtubecommenter]

When I was in 7th or 8th grade we were playing basketball at recess and this one guy was being a bit of a jerk about it, just playing his own away and annoying everyone, so a friend of mine (note: he’s black) asked him to stop a few times and finally backhanded him, he got suspended for 2 weeks. If I did that I’d miss recess for a day. School is dumb

[ninth]

Not to mention some counselors and teachers make a habit of picking on the same kids, I’ve observed it myself despite being someone who has never been disciplined in high school.

[fakertazer]

getting suspended for staying in class mid lunch time