(AP) – Three St. Louis-area school districts say they will end
out-of-school suspensions for preschool students through third-grade students in
the next two years.
School officials say they will instead use social workers, behavioral health
specialists and other services to reduce the need to discipline students.
Maplewood-Richmond Heights says suspensions will be banned for the young
students in the next school year. The Normandy and Ladue school districts
promise to ban the suspensions by the 2018-2019 school year.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that announcement about the suspensions
was made at an assembly for the Break the Pipeline campaign, an effort
spearheaded by Metropolitan Congregations United to stop what it refers to as
the school-to-prison pipeline.
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