“One of the times I was suspended was when I
was in the 8th grade.
This girl was going around talking about me so when I went to press her
about it she hit me, so I started fighting. Then we went outside the school and started fighting. After we finished fighting she went
back to the school and told on me.
So when I went back to school the next day they told me I couldn’t come
back for 90 days and I got arrested. The most recent time I was suspended was
in high school. I got into a fight
and they suspended me for 60 days. I don’t know what the other girl got. But I got 60 days.”
We know that punitive school discipline policies, like suspensions, do not reduce conflict, but instead increase the likelihood that students will fall behind, drop out, or become incarcerated. Last year, there were 73,441 total suspensions. Suspension rates are still too high and students of color and students with special needs are still disproportionately impacted. Everyday that we wait for the appropriate changes to the Discipline Code, 260 students are suspended daily. This must stop now!
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