TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Are Students Failing School or Are Schools Failing Students? Class Cutting in High School
JO  - Journal of Social Issues
A1  - Fallis, R. Kirk
A1  - Opotow, Susan
SP  - 103
EP  - 119
VL  - 59
IS  - 1
N2  - In many urban public high schools today, students navigate their day by selectively cutting class leading to course failure and dropping out. Collaborative, qualitative research conducted with urban high school students indicates that cutting results from disengagement and alienation that students label "boredom." Focus group data (N= 160 in 8 groups) indicate that class cutting has not only an individual component that schools address, but also a systemic, conflictual component that schools do not address. These unaddressed, intransigent conflicts can foster moral exclusion and structural violence. These data suggest that rather than relying on standard punitive approaches, schools can respond to class cutting more effectively by taking students' concerns seriously, working collaboratively with students, and engaging in institutional self-scrutiny.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-4537
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1540-4560.00007
ID  - ref1
ER  -