This 56 page report by the Advancement Project subtitled, How Zero Tolerance and High-Stakes Testing Funnel Youth into the School to Prison Pipeline is not a surprise but to see it backed with documentation is an eye opener.
From the Advancement Project’s download page:
Test, Punish, and Push Out: How Zero Tolerance and High-Stakes Testing Funnel Youth [...]
Debbie Harbeson article, It’s time to get deeper with graduation numbers, addresses push-outs:
Clarksville also decided to pull out the percentage of students who transferred to homeschooling because they worry that some families might be using the ability to transfer to the home education as a way to drop out.
However, the real potential for abuse here [...]
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I wonder how the number of public school expulsions affects the ‘growth of homeschooling?’
The dilemma of expulsions: They increase as more schools go to zero tolerance, 2 August 2008, MLive.com, Michigan
The school promised to send a tutor once a week, but no one showed up for several weeks, the family said.
The grandmother, who is [...]
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In the following report, school officials of the high school in Mooresville, Indiana have “dismissed” teens from attending school, and have told the kids’ parents they must homeschool the teens.
Mooresville High School officials criticized over student dismissals, 6 January 2007, Reporter-Times, Martinsville, Indiana
Anna Payton, whose two children were students at Mooresville High School, said both were [...]
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6 year old pushout
Young Sebastian of Homewood, Illinois has been kicked out of his classroom since December 10 of last year. Why?
Because the school district hired surveillance team wasn’t convinced that he was in the right place at the right time.
Child barred from class in residency dispute
Chicago Tribune By Bonnie Miller Rubin February 1, 2008
At a district [...]
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