Wow. I'm trying to improve our ISS program and yours is much
worse (sorry).

The only students who are permitted in ISS are put there by a
principal. Teachers send referrals for discipline issues to the
principal and the principal determines who goes to ISS and who
has after-school detention (if a kid misses detention, he does
get ISS).

Teachers are to send down work, but some do/ some don't. I
actually have ISS as a duty this year and I have had several
students who don't have work. If they don't have work, they
must read the newspaper, but some just stare at it.

My thinking is this: Many of the kids who end up in ISS are
already low performing and a great deal of them are repeat ISS
kids. I would like to have some type of program in place so
students have to work on specific subject areas. For example,
where I live there is the Study Island program which is a
program to increase reading and math skills. The student can
work through the program on his own.

The teachers will complain because it will be like tutoring a
lot of different kids (Yes, I'm a teacher) but it's a duty and
it won't require the teacher to create lesson plans or to grade
anything. They just monitor and guide students with the program.

Anyway, that's one of my ideas. I'm looking for a lot of
options because my idea will require computers and space--two
things we don't have.

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> day for talking, walking, eating in class, throwing paper,
> sleeping, not working on an assignment, personal vendettas
> after a child has reported a teacher, etc. Average traffic is
> 50-60 students per day, with 3 day suspensions representing
> the most common time frame.
>
> The walk-ins sit all day with no assignments and loss of
> instructional time. The in school suspensions range from 1-5
> days and 99% of those sent to the ISS room never receive
> assignments from their teachers despite repeated requests from
> the Disciplinarian to please send the assignments for the
> kids. School policy prohibits allowing any student to leave
> the room to go to their teacher and ask for an assignment
> while they are serving their suspension. The administration
> sends out sporadic reminders to the teachers to send
> assignments but there are no consequences for the teachers if
> they fail to comply. Privately administrators have expressed
> their belief that the ISS students are supposed to 'suffer'
> and falling further behind in their classwork is what they
> deserve for being sent to ISS. Concerns about the great loss
> of instructional time for these students are routinely ignored.
>
> I'm interested in responses as well.

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