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Bill bars Connecticut schools from expelling young students

The state House has given final legislative approval to a bill barring out-of-school suspensions and expulsions of students in preschool through second grade.  The bill also requires a school-based mental health program to provide for screenings to identify children with behavioral or disciplinary problems. 

 

Wilton state Representative Gail Lavielle supports the goal of the legislation.  She says it clarifies by limiting the instances when you would want to take the child out of school.  While the bill would prohibit out-of-school suspensions and expulsions for students in pre-school through second grade, there would be certain exceptions.  Those include possession of a firearm and if the conduct is of a violent or sexual nature that endangers other children or themselves.

 

Lavielle says at all costs the child must be kept in the environment where the issues can be dealt with, and hopefully solved.  She says the last thing you want to do if you can avoid it, is to keep a child out of school.  If that happens, she says the behaviors are not going to improve.

 

A recent state Department of Education report determined more than 1,200 children under the age of 7 were suspended during the last school year.

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