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1. armchairhacker · 1790606533 · focus · HN ↗

   My understanding is that it’s normalized by administrators, and the public doesn’t think much about it. Another issue is that some schools have heavy police presence and prison-like rules.

   I think a solution to both is to expel students who, for example, assault other students or teachers. Other commenters are blaming parents, and sure we should incentivize and facilitate better parenting, but in the short term what is more successful at reducing violence is expelling violent students.

   1. dominotw · 1790606908 · focus · HN ↗

      lol yea expel them and make it society at large problem because you expeling students reforms them

      1. dash2 · 1790607690 · focus · HN ↗

         Even if expelling students doesn't reform them: first, it protects other students; second, ex ante, it's an incentive to behave better in the first place. In fact there's quite good evidence that this works well. (You can check the evidence yourself, by asking ChatGPT "What's the evidence on expelling badly behaved students from schools?" or a similar question.)

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