How does your state handle HS suspensions?

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<p>In our suburban town almost no one gets suspended, but when it occurs the school sends a tutor to the student's home during the suspension period. So I was surprised to read the article below, which clearly indicates that our town is an outlier. How does your state handle HS suspensions?</p>

<p>Advocacy</a> Group Criticizes Connecticut Public School Suspensions -- Courant.com</p>

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<p>Wow, that's very convenient. Here you either don't go to school and take 0's for all of your work or you go to some random room at a different location and sit there, not speaking a word, for like 5/6 hours every day and do a bunch of stupid work so that you can make up your real work when you get back to school.</p>

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<p>New York
Suspended kids get private at home tutors (or they meet in the library or elsewhere). District pays. According to a teacher friend who has tutored, the pay is very good. </p>

<p>Unsure if there is a minimum number of days suspended before you get the tutor.</p>

<p>It makes you think.. the kid who is out sick for a non-contagious illness or recover for a week does not get a tutor, but the suspended student does!</p>

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<p>We don't have a state law regarding suspensions. It is up to each district what they want to do. However, students who qualify for special education services must receive services if they are suspended for more than 5 days. In many districts, suspended students who are in regular education receive no tutoring. Districts decide if they want to give them zeroes for the missed work or allow them to make it up in some way.</p>

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<p>Ours is also decided by the district, not the state. The suspended kids go to an alternative facility if they have an out of school suspension. There's something called an in-school suspension too, but I don't really know how that works.</p>

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<p>"New York
Suspended kids get private at home tutors (or they meet in the library or elsewhere). District pays. According to a teacher friend who has tutored, the pay is very good.</p>

<p>Unsure if there is a minimum number of days suspended before you get the tutor.</p>

<p>It makes you think.. the kid who is out sick for a non-contagious illness or recover for a week does not get a tutor, but the suspended student does!"</p>

<p>Where in NY do you live? I live in Long Island, and it might be because i live in a really poor school district, but this does not happen at all. I know a lot of people who have been suspended and some for long periods at a time and when they come back they have to catch up with all the work that they missed. If you get a tutor for the days that you were suspended, doesnt that defeat the purpose of getting suspended?</p>

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<p>^I was in two different districts throughout school in NY (Long Island and in Orange County).
They definitely didn't have programs like this for suspended students, although both had iss programs (and the LI school was in a wealthy area).</p>

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<p>Lightzout-
Also from Long Island here.
Teacher friend works in Half Hollow Hills (Dix Hills area) and also, a friends son was suspended (don't ask) and he had private tutoring too if I remember correctly in Harborfield (Greenlawn, Centerport)</p>

<p>Sounds like from the posting above that it varies district to district.</p>