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Suspensions in schools are on the rise. But is that the best solution for misbehaving kids?
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Date:2025-04-11 07:33:14
Hearing the phone ring during school hours used to send Destiny Huff into panic mode.
She worried it would be her son’s school calling to say he was suspended again– a constant reality for Huff and her husband when her son began kindergarten at a Louisiana school in 2021.
Huff said her five-year-old son “would come back from suspension– the school day started at 7:45– and by nine o’clock, they'd already called me and he’d been suspended again.”
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