A small school district in southern Delaware has implemented a “5 strikes you’re out” discipline policy beginning this spring, a move the state’s largest paper called “divisive.”
Sussex County’s Laurel School District noted last month any student who “accrues more than five violations of the student code of conduct” during the year (“excluding chronic tardiness or unexcused absences”) will face possible “alternative placement, long-term suspension or expulsion,” the Delaware News Journal reports.
Laurel Superintendent Shawn Larrimore (pictured) said the changes “are designed to strengthen [the] approach to discipline” and “will help teachers teach and students learn.”
He added only about two percent of district students are “near the threshold” for the most serious disciplinary measures.
While the Delaware Dept. of Education called Laurel’s decision a “local” matter, the News Journal noted it is “at odds” with department guidance. […]
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