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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The law absolutely allows kids to be suspended. EOTP MS suspend kids all the time. What DC also needs is a faster pathway to alternative schools for kids who engage in violence repeatedly. [/quote]

+1, one of the reasons we left our EOTP elementary was discovering they had a high suspension rate (>5 suspensions per year), which means they have a lot of behavioral issues and that the current approach isn’t working.

Agree we need alternative tracks for repeat issues— these kids need major intervention and the violence should be treated as a major issue that requires specialty instruction (that includes mental health support, classes in emotional regulation, and greater parent outreach and communication). Suspension doesn’t really work because schools wind up suspending the same kids over and over.[/quote]

And your post is why lots of middle and high schools don’t suspend. Those suspension rates don’t mean other schools don’t have behavior issues and violence.  It means principals don’t suspend.[/quote]

And what exactly is meant by “suspensions”’ working or not? I honestly think most people see some value in chronic troublemakers just not being around for a spell to give folks a break.

[b]This isn’t about resolving the troubled kids’ issues so much as trying to protect and preserve the educational experience of all the other students[/b], many of whom may have their own issues, if not necessarily behavioral in a disruptive sense. [b]Those kids matter too and are being actively harmed by the antics of the trouble makers. [/b]And I’m talking about serious chronic cases, not sporadic acting up of the normal variety.

There is real value in some kids not being there. No, it’s not an ultimate solution, but it’s the most utilitarian near-term approach, especially given the limited learning time horizon for the other kids.

When you choose to keep these kids around you are affirmatively choosing to sabotage all the other kids. [/quote]

This. Completely and totally this. I am so sick and tired of the reflexive responses telling me what is best for the troublemakers with zero regard for every other kid. If it hurts the troubled kid and allows hundreds of others to have a good education, I'm good.[/quote]

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