LAUSD schools bring in team from Georgia to reform student discipline
LA officials are meeting with a team from an Atlanta suburb that has pioneered methods to reduce on-campus arrests, in hopes of creating a similar, more holistic system to deal with misbehaving students. (Sept. 13, 2012)Credit: Yellow Dog/Getty Images
Los Angeles school, law enforcement and county officials are meeting Thursday with a team from an Atlanta suburb that pioneered methods to reduce on-campus arrests. They hope to create a similar, more holistic system to deal with misbehaving students.
Rather than focusing on punishment, these methods focus on looking at bad behavior as a symptom in kids,