Reducing suspensions is important but maintaining safe and orderly schools is essential. Schools shouldn’t have to choose between the two. However, without good, objective data it’s hard to know if the reductions in suspensions that have occurred across the country have compromised safety.
“The 2015 Indicators of School Crime and Safety Report, an annual study produced by the National Center for Education Statistics released in May of this year, found that between 1992 and 2014, the number of students who were victims of crimes at school declined 82 percent, from 181 incidents per 1,000 students in 1992 to 33 incidents per 1,000 students in 2014.
Still, critics of such studies say that many are flawed because school violence is often underreported.”
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http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/06/school-violence-restorative-justice/488945/?utm_source=HML+Post+for+July+5%2C+2016&utm_campaign=hml&utm_medium=email