can a child be expelled from DCPS in elementary school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you know the school is trying to help and the parents are standing in the way?

Exactly. It's often the school refusing to provide appropriate supports or placements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have no recourse. Impact on classmates is not a factor that carries any weight. Good luck.

if the kid is violent enough, volume of litigation and the number of depositions that the principal and teacher have to sit through may be enough to get some action

The op didn't say the child was violent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would that work? The kid would just go to another DCPS?

Specialized self-contained classroom.

That's not expulsion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would that work? The kid would just go to another DCPS?

DC pays for them to go to Lab

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would that work? The kid would just go to another DCPS?

Specialized self-contained classroom.

You do know that is for DISABLED kids right? Not just kids with trauma. And being ‘bad’ doesn’t mean self contained is a fit.

[Anonymous]

Expulsion only happens when a child is a major safety threat. Think bringing in a gun. That's about the only thing that might get an elementary kid expelled. Or perhaps a student who sexually assaults another student or teacher, like perhaps an 8th grader. And before someone says a 13 or 14 year old can't rape a teacher, I'm a 5 foot tall petite woman. There are 8th graders at least 8 inches taller than me and 50-100 pounds heavier than me.
What I'm saying is if a kid is expelled, it's for something really horrible and is much deserved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would that work? The kid would just go to another DCPS?

Specialized self-contained classroom.

That's not expulsion.

It is if your school doesn’t have the appropriate classroom (and most don’t). You are, in fact, expelled from the school you currently attend and placed in an entirely different school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would that work? The kid would just go to another DCPS?

Specialized self-contained classroom.

You do know that is for DISABLED kids right? Not just kids with trauma. And being ‘bad’ doesn’t mean self contained is a fit.

There are different kinds of self contained classrooms (ILS, CES, OLS, etc) and that absolutely does include a classroom type for kids prone to violence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Expulsion only happens when a child is a major safety threat. Think bringing in a gun. That's about the only thing that might get an elementary kid expelled. Or perhaps a student who sexually assaults another student or teacher, like perhaps an 8th grader. And before someone says a 13 or 14 year old can't rape a teacher, I'm a 5 foot tall petite woman. There are 8th graders at least 8 inches taller than me and 50-100 pounds heavier than me.
What I'm saying is if a kid is expelled, it's for something really horrible and is much deserved.

As a fellow teacher, this is correct. It has to be extreme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Expulsion only happens when a child is a major safety threat. Think bringing in a gun. That's about the only thing that might get an elementary kid expelled. Or perhaps a student who sexually assaults another student or teacher, like perhaps an 8th grader. And before someone says a 13 or 14 year old can't rape a teacher, I'm a 5 foot tall petite woman. There are 8th graders at least 8 inches taller than me and 50-100 pounds heavier than me.
What I'm saying is if a kid is expelled, it's for something really horrible and is much deserved.

As a fellow teacher, this is correct. It has to be extreme.

No one was expelled from DCPS last year. Not one student. I would argue some of those things listed above did happen at some school last year. Teachers are assaulted all the time. Extreme doesn’t even cover what would have to happen for a kid to be expelled.

[Anonymous]

A student this extreme in elementary school would likely have to go through the IEP process for a behavior disturbance which could result in a self contained classroom which is not expulsion but the student is removed from the current setting and placed in one that is usually in a completely different school (and with transportation provided by OSSE.) The city has a legal responsibility to provide an education for children. There's also DYRS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Expulsion only happens when a child is a major safety threat. Think bringing in a gun. That's about the only thing that might get an elementary kid expelled. Or perhaps a student who sexually assaults another student or teacher, like perhaps an 8th grader. And before someone says a 13 or 14 year old can't rape a teacher, I'm a 5 foot tall petite woman. There are 8th graders at least 8 inches taller than me and 50-100 pounds heavier than me.
What I'm saying is if a kid is expelled, it's for something really horrible and is much deserved.

As a fellow teacher, this is correct. It has to be extreme.

No one was expelled from DCPS last year. Not one student. I would argue some of those things listed above did happen at some school last year. Teachers are assaulted all the time. Extreme doesn’t even cover what would have to happen for a kid to be expelled.

Where did you find that information? The most recent discipline report that I found on OSSE's website was 2022-23.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would that work? The kid would just go to another DCPS?

Specialized self-contained classroom.

You do know that is for DISABLED kids right? Not just kids with trauma. And being ‘bad’ doesn’t mean self contained is a fit.

There are different kinds of self contained classrooms (ILS, CES, OLS, etc) and that absolutely does include a classroom type for kids prone to violence.

No it doesn’t. You have to have a certain IQ to be places in CES and ILS.

You must be talking about BES, in which case you still need an IEP and have a disability like emotionally disturbed.

Try again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would that work? The kid would just go to another DCPS?

Specialized self-contained classroom.

That's not expulsion.

It is if your school doesn’t have the appropriate classroom (and most don’t). You are, in fact, expelled from the school you currently attend and placed in an entirely different school.

That wouldn't be an expulsion. It would be a transfer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would that work? The kid would just go to another DCPS?

Specialized self-contained classroom.

You're assuming the child has a disability.