Effects of Missouri Safe Schools Act on Students Academic Life

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Thus this law was intended to establish common disciplinary actions in all school districts. For instance, this law was used to punish any student from any school district who committed a given crime. Missouri Safe School Act (1996) clarified various crimes together with the punishment that the students that commit such crimes will receive. This paper will discuss the effects Missouri Safe School Act (1996) to student handbooks and procedures in daily school operations. The introduction of Missouri Safe School Act (1996) created a safer and more productive environment for American education system, (Moyer, 2017). Such students ended up having no necessary skills and knowledge for survival. It is also clear that the alternative school also referred to as in-school suspension programs had limited resource regarding the necessary resources that were required to support basic education for suspended students, (Krezmien et al, 2010).

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Although state and federal government tried to fund them, this school could not be compared with the school districts that had enough resources to support students that were lucky to be left out by the strictness of school laws and regulation which were enforced by the Missouri Safe School Act (1996). The section of the Missouri Safe School Act (1996) the called for immediate removal of students that were suspected of posing harm or threat to other students, or themselves resulted to the expulsion of innocent students,(Krezmien et al, 2010). The school board that was tasked with the role of taking disciplinary actions on indiscipline and cruel students who were thought to pose a danger or threat to others could use past criminal/disciplinary actions/ juvenile records for the students.

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Once a student was suspected from school, such student was required by the law to remain 1000 feet away from school environment as well as school properties and hence separating them from other students, (Burgess, 1996). Although such separation was intended to ensure that risky students were kept away from other students’, this method of protecting other students from such dangers associated with such students. The effect of such school laws and policies which were brought about by Missouri Safe School Act (1996), as it separated interaction of suspected students from sharing academic knowledge with other students. Some section of Missouri Safe School Act (1996) such as Waiver of State Board Rules, Self-Administered Medication, CPR Training and Violence Prevention programs were formulated for the benefit of students, (Burgess, 1996).

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