DC Charters Kick Out the Problem Children and Keep the Compliant Ones
A clip from an investigative report by WaPo that details expulsion of 6 year old KIPP student:
. . . .Greenfield said the D.C. school system is far from perfect and too often relies on suspensions, including long-term suspensions of up to 90 days, to deal with bad behavior.
The city’s traditional public schools use long-term suspensions more often than charter schools, imposing nearly twice as many in the past academic year, according to school data. That year, 2011-12, 601 students were suspended from traditional schools for more than 10 days as punishment for a single incident; 327 charter school students received similarly long suspensions.
But unlike expulsion, suspension does not allow a school to give up responsibility for a difficult child, Greenfield said.
She pointed to the case of a homeless 6-year-old her