School District Never Expels Anyone

Hey! Did you notice that little gem apparently dumped right at the start of the weekend, where nobody would see it? Fortunately, I’m a loser who reads the media on the weekend, and I did.

KYW 1060 reports school district officials are going to start expelling students in violent incidents, instead of just sending them to Shallcross or wherever. But here’s the fun fact: Nobody has been expelled in the past three years.

Despite thousands of violent incidents over the last three years, no Philadelphia students were expelled. Those who were disciplined were sent to alternative disciplinary schools.

Mayor Nutter told the SRC this week he couldn’t fathom that: “I believe upwards of 20 percent of our schoolteachers had some form of assault or aggressive activity against them last year. And how no child in the school district could have been expelled from school is impossible for me to understand.”

We should probably separate the “assault” from the “aggressive activity” but: Um, wow. Pretty awesome.

Phila. Public Schools to Enforce Strict Discipline [KYW 1060]