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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

School suspensions: Are they effective? - Bakersfield.com

School suspensions: Are they effective? - Bakersfield.com:

"Kim Baker's son was supposed to be sitting out recess. But, according to a notice sent home, he cut in front of other students waiting to play tetherball, then kicked another's shin and 'punched his hand into his other hand in a threatening manner.'

He was sent home and suspended from school the next day for disrupting school activities and defying authority of supervisors, the notice said. A week later, he was suspended again for throwing pencil lead at another student.

Baker's beef? His son is only in the first grade."