If you skip class you get detention, if you skip detention you get Saturday school, and if you skip that you get suspended, so basically you are getting out of school for skipping school. I don’t think this should be the case because there is no point of missing school as a punishment for missing school.

“I think this is a stupid concept. I got suspended because I didn’t go to Saturday school. I agree I shouldn’t have skipped class, but sometimes you get so much work for other classes that you have to skip a class or two. It’s so hard to handle everything. I had to do more work than I already had because of those two days I got suspended out of school,” junior Samantha Escalante said.

Syed Abidi also agrees that receiving a suspension for ditching classes is useless.

“I don’t think [that] skipping class suspension should be the result. Students have so much stress on their mind and this just adds to it,” sophomore Abidi said. “Now I am not saying there shouldn’t be any punishment because there should be. I think a alternative punishment would be taking off away for a week if they don’t go to Saturday school, I agree with all the punishments of ditching until Saturday school. Another alternative punishment could be to have the student’s parent come in and have a mandatory meeting with the dean. Suspension should not be the solution.”

The new green dean Mr.Miwa has a different perspective on this subject.

“The suspension is a successive punishment. The intervention is there to hopefully make kids realize they’re gonna pay consequences for skipping class. The first time students get a warning because we wanna encourage them to be in class. Then moving forth there has to be some consequence. Before we actually get to saturday school we built capacity and allow room for movement for example we could assign a student 20 detentions potentially before actually giving them saturday school. If it gets to the point the students are not using those other interventions like the after school detention or dean office detention or Saturday school then there has to be something more severe to make them understand the gravity of being at school,” the new green dean, Ryan Miwa said.