From
EAG News:
Parents, teachers and students at Monroe Elementary School are protesting student discipline procedures because they contend administrators refuse to remove unruly students from the classroom.
The backlash against San Francisco Unified School District’s relatively new approach to student discipline mirrors complaints from teachers and parents in other districts across the country with similar “restorative justice” procedures in recent years, EAGnews reports.
Like many school districts, San Francisco adopted a “Safe and Supportive Schools Policy” in 2014 that discourages student suspensions in favor of “restorative justice” reprimands that involve talking circles and student-designed punishments. The intent is to keep students, particularly minority students who are suspended far more than white students, in school where they can continue to learn, rather than send them home to miss a day of school.
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I think that the reason they didn't want to suspend students is that they state/federal funding is dependent upon the number of students in attendance. Suspended / expelled students aren't in attendance, so they lose the funding for those students.
