For years, school discipline consisted of referrals, suspensions and expulsions. Many schools had “zero-tolerance” policies that suspended or expelled students for one violation of rules, varying from bringing a weapon to school to willful defiance.
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To the collective future leaders and authors of Friday's Viewpoints article ("Today, students march to keep guns off campuses"): BRAVO!!! You give hope that there is a future generation that will actually change the world for the better after they turn 30. Rather than just become what they d…
Bakersfield High School Counselor Katie Price wrote an interesting and revealing Community Voices article ("A school run amok: A counselor's perspective," April 18) describing some deplorable student behavior at BHS and other Kern high schools. Teachers being assaulted? Teachers filing lawsu…
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