Disciplinary practices and their effects on students attending secondary public schools in Cyprus

Abstract

A growing body of literature indicates that the traditional disciplinary practices, such as suspension and expulsion, which are being widely used by the majority of schools around the world, are not only ineffective in fulfilling their primary goals, which is to target and deter a student's disruptive behaviour, but they can actually reinforce such behaviour and/or cause students more problems than the ones they are already dealing with.