Wilson County Schools Community Forum

The Wilson branch of the NAACP and Wilson County Schools will host a series of public forums.

The first of three forums will be held Thursday, May 27, at Darden Middle School at 7 pm . The focus of this meeting will be "Keeping the Students in the Classroom. How to improve student attendance and reducing student suspensions.

Future discussions will include: promoting faculty/student interactions and cultural sensitivity, understanding the roles and responsibilities of schools, the Central Office and the Board of Education and improving the graduation rate and reducing the dropout rate.



Questions for the WCS/NAACP School Board Forum

DISCUSSION TOPIC : " Keeping the students in the classroom"

1. Are parents allowed to come and monitor their children in the classroom and if so is this for all grade levels? 

2. Are teachers held accountable for controlling their classroom? How?

3. How often is suspension the first alternative for misbehavior?

4. What will cause an immediate suspension where violence is not used?

5. How often are police called to elementary schools to take grade school students away?

6. Where are police directed to take children?

7. What affect do you believe having police come to take children away have on those children?

8. Are principals held accountable when they have to go outside of school system (to police) to discipline elementary school children?

9. Have you looked to see if children who drop out of school have a large amount of suspensions in their school career?

10. How many children who have lots of suspension also are unable to pass the EOG?

11. Are there alternatives to suspension that other cities use?

12. Students who smoke cigarettes get in-house suspension. Children with shirt tales out get out of school suspension for 3, 5 or even 10 days.

13. Why would smoking carry a lesser penalty?

14. Why are punishments on school grounds more punitive than on school busses?

15. Since children are told there is zero tolerance for fighting, why isn't there a required class on conflict resolution?

16. How do you tell children to pay the consequences of suspension if they have a fight and not teach non-violence?

17. Have you looked at race and gender percentages for students suspended? Who is being suspended more often and why?

18. Are those the students who drop out more often? What is being done about it?

19. What happens when a child is suspended and parents want to appeal what has happened?

20. How long is the appeal process? Is the child out of school while that process takes place?