High
expectations translate into sales just as often as high review scores, and if you don't believe me, just ask the nice guys
over at Gearbox how they managed to sell 1.31 million copies of 2013 coasterware Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Suspensions and expulsions communicate that adults have low
expectations for children, which children internalize and
translate into disengagement from school.17
Over the long term, this disengagement can lead to truancy, dropping out of school, and incarceration.18