School suspensions set students up to enter the school-to-prison pipeline, leading to unemployment and incarceration later in life (Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology).
Solution
Taking an empathetic, rather than punitive, approach to classroom discipline reduces suspensions and improves student-teacher relationships.
Rejection by peers leads teens to act aggressively and feel down.
Solution
Teaching teens that everyone has the capacity to change decreases aggression and symptoms of depression following peer exclusion. If people can change, so too can social labels like “bully” and “loser"...