Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: ISS Ideas At my school In-School-Suspension (ISS) is thought more of as a reward to students than a punishment. Students just go to this trailer and sit for the school day. During some parts of the day, students in ISS are allowed to wear hats, eat, watch YouTube videos, etc. This is clearly not punishment. One of my students told me Friday that he missed ISS. He said in ISS no one fusses at you when you do not work. In the regular classroom, teachers fuss at students when they do not work. How can teachers change this ISS system? To be clear, I do not write referrals, because clearly it would do nothing but show students I cannot handle students. Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) This is a similar issue at the school I am interning at. ISS is a joke. My supervising teacher has become away of this problem and has taken ISS into her own hands. She now requests that the students be pulled from another class like music or gym to sit in her class and work on all of their missed work and additional work to get their grades up. The students despise this, but it has really helped them with school. This is something that I would do in my middle and high school classes and potentially my elementary classes, too, if ISS was ineffective or with ESE students.