Cincinnati kindergartners face suspension, expulsion
Jennifer Mrozowski and John Byczkowski of The Cincinnati Enquirer
reviewed school disciplinary records to find that
students than any district in the state. Some of Cincinnati’s students
are getting into trouble at a young age: “More than 200 times last year,
Cincinnati kindergartners were expelled or suspended from school for at
least one day.” Cincinnati and Dayton-area school were the only ones in
Ohio to expel kindergartners during the last school year. “Behavior
problems, fighting and violence are the main reasons that schools
discipline the youngest kids. But children also are being punished for
stealing and trashing school property, pulling fire alarms and bringing
weapons to class.”
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