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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After a clean-sweep by a single party in the last school election, Dr. Reid is not going anywhere.

She probably believes she has a mandate now.

Do not expect any course-change on her “restorative-justice” / zero suspensions plan for FCPS.

And yes, violent fights on school grounds are becoming more commonplace in FCPS, as is vaping, truancy, etc.[/quote]
Source?[/quote]

Does anyone have actual statistics on discipline by school? I keep hearing these anecdotes about "no suspensions", but my observation is that it really varies by school - principals are given a lot of leeway in how to implement the SRR. Some still seem to hand out suspensions like candy, even for first complaint / non-violent infractions. I'd really like to see how consistent the discipline practices are across FCPS, but can't find any information more recent than studies from 2019. Seems like the number of suspensions per school would be an easy thing to publish each year to provide some transparency. [/quote]

look under learning climate

https://schoolquality.virginia.gov/[/quote]

NP and while this does provide number of suspensions (thanks PP!), it doesn't really tell you about proportionality of discipline or if there are, say, violent incidents where no suspensions are being handed out because they are being called something else.

Yeah, there's that table of behaviors of concern, but each administrator might be different. To take an example from a recent thread in the ES forum, one principal might call shoving someone who bullied you one kind of behavior and suspend the kid. Another principal might downplay it, give it a lesser category, and not suspend the same kid.

At our school when they switched to responsive classroom the discipline referrals went down. Was it because the behavior got better, or because teachers knew they'd get in trouble for referring? Based on the number of times my kid got pulled out of class because someone was throwing chairs, it sure seemed like the latter. I would have preferred more referrals and fewer thrown chairs.[/quote]

Thanks for the link, that is helpful - but I'm still missing something?  Under short-term suspensions and long-term suspensions, it shows for each student group the 'percent of population' and 'percent of suspensions' - no total numbers?  So it's a way of looking at equity or bias, I guess, but we don't see year-to-year trends in the total number of suspensions?  Or am I supposed to draw some link between the SOA Offenses data (which does have total numbers) and the severity of discipline for those offenses?[/quote]

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