Last month, California’s top education official announced suspensions have been cut in half since five years ago, and expulsions are down more than 40 percent. The state has encouraged these reductions as mounting evidence has shown out-of-school suspensions and expulsions do more harm than good.
But the story behind the numbers is complicated. As schools stop relying on suspensions and expulsions to discipline students, some struggle to find other ways to keep bad behavior in check.
At one middle school in Kern County that’s lead to some drastic measures. A few weeks ago, a dozen parents, teachers and community members met in the public library near the little farmworker community of Weedpatch.
[For more on this story by Vanessa Rancano, go to https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017...to-drastic-measures/]
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