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Keep little children in the classroom
The chart shows the reasons for out-of-school suspensions for students in preschool through Grade 2.
As shocking as it sounds, children as young as pre-school and kindergarten can be and are suspended from school each year, and in fairly sizable numbers. Despite the legislature’s effort in 2015 to largely eliminate the suspension and expulsion of children in preschool through second grade, during the 2018-19 school year (the last full school year before COVID-19 closed the school house doors for so many), there were still almost 1,000 very young children suspended from school.
These are children ages 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 years old. And they are mostly Black and brown children. In fact, while the state has consistently found that non-white children are more likely to be suspended from school,