2017-18 FCPS Out-of-School Suspensions by Pyramid

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the stats are for the whole school (where there are secondary schools) or just the HS portion. For Hayfield, LBSS and Robinson -- they have 6 grades in one building. So, are the numbers just for the HS students?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the stats are for the whole school (where there are secondary schools) or just the HS portion. For Hayfield, LBSS and Robinson -- they have 6 grades in one building. So, are the numbers just for the HS students?

The middle and high school numbers were combined within each pyramid, including those that have secondary schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think those numbers tell the true story. Once my son got in a fight at school and I got a phone call. They didn’t even give him a detention. I asked why he wasn’t being suspended. They said they talked to him and the other student about their feelings and what caused the fight. We had consequences at home but the school didn’t do a thing. He doesn’t have a history of fighting but I would think fighting in school should be an automatic suspension or at least some consequence.

Fcps has restorative justice now.

Restorative justice means limited punishment and talking about how you feel about your rule breaking and bad behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think those numbers tell the true story. Once my son got in a fight at school and I got a phone call. They didn’t even give him a detention. I asked why he wasn’t being suspended. They said they talked to him and the other student about their feelings and what caused the fight. We had consequences at home but the school didn’t do a thing. He doesn’t have a history of fighting but I would think fighting in school should be an automatic suspension or at least some consequence.

It doesn’t. I have had elementary students in knock down fights this year. Some have been in 3 or 4. In each case they were back to the room within the half hour.

[Anonymous]

Are they better off at home (in some cases with no supervision) or on the streets or back in school. No matter what happened, the schools are more often being forced to deal with it.

[Anonymous]

Many schools are not dealing with it. It's entirely subjective. I've seen a kid punch another kid in the face and return to class, and the next week a kid bring medication on purpose with no consequence, and then a kid that yelled and ran around got suspended.

[Anonymous]

Same here. I don't believe the stats anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same here. I don't believe the stats anymore.

The stats are surely accurate; whether more or less suspensions should have been handed out is a different question.

[Anonymous]

Where the link? I want pwcs numbers

[Anonymous]

Not surprisingly, schools with higher minority populations have higher rates of suspension.

[Anonymous]

Does APS publish these stats?