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I believe that schools giving suspensions to students has the opposite effect on behavior. CMV

Growing up I went through a typical "American Public School System" and graduated High School last year. Having experienced suspensions thought my 12 years in the system, I feel that giving these to students is having the opposite intended effect on their behavior. 

* To give you an example...
When I was a Freshman in High School, two girls was caught fighting each other in the bathroom. They both received a 2 week (out of school) suspension for this. After the two weeks had ended they both came back to classes. THE FIRST PERIOD BACK they broke out in an even bigger and move violent fight (throwing things, flipping desks, etc) in math class. They again received 2 weeks suspensions each. 

... And here is where I see a problem. I found out after the fact, that during the 2 weeks they each were suspend for the first fight, they trashed talked and made threats to each other over multiple social network sites. This being the case the first thing they both wanted to do on their return to classes was beat on each other again. 

I see this as a perfect example of how these suspensions don't effectively deal with the student V Student conflict problems. Giving these students time away from school causes them to do poorly academically (thanks to missed class time). They don't use that time to cool off or think on their mistakes that caused them to get suspended in the first place. The time is used to make them more angry and then the problem starts all over again very often soon after they return to normal school. 

CMV???
gpt
I don't think the goal is to correct the behavior when it comes to suspension.  Who is getting suspended that actually views "Don't come to school for a week" as punishment?

The goal by that point is to remove them from the student population so that they can't be a distraction to the OTHER students, the ones who DO want to learn and don't deserve to have their first period punctuated by fistfights.