A new study shows 60 percent of Texas junior high and high school students get expelled or suspended.
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You do something bad in school and you may get suspended or expelled.
And apparently in Texas, that's a lot of kids. According to a new study released by the Council of State Governments, nearly 60 percent of public junior high and high school students get suspended or expelled.
The study, which was released Tuesday, tracked nearly one million Texas school children during a six year period. In the study, it found that more than 30 percent of seventh through 12th graders in Texas received out-of-school suspension averaging about two days.
"The findings in this report should prompt policymakers in Texas and in states everywhere to ask this question: Is our (public) school discipline system getting the desired results?" said one of the report's co-authors, Michael Thompson of the justice center, according to MySanAntonio.com.
Locally, Amarillo Independent School District said since the study is so new, it hasn't had the chance to evaluate it to determine local numbers during the same time period.
According to MySanAntonio.com, the actions for those who got in trouble were as little as being late to class.
