KICKED
OUT OF KINDERGARTEN
Tougher discipline reaches lower grades
For some 5-year-olds, kindergarten means fights and classroom
tantrums - behavior problems so severe that little kids sometimes
are kicked out of school. More than 200 times last year, Greater Cincinnati kindergartners
were expelled or suspended from school for at least one day,
an Enquirer analysis of city and suburban school records
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Teaching children to cooperate
How can Survivor help children succeed? The Center for Peace Education uses the show in one Greater Cincinnati program that aims to help kids, some as young as 5, learn to solve conflicts through cooperation and good communication.
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M O R E . . .
• Mental health a problem at young ages
• What should a parent do?
AREA SCHOOLS LEAD IN TOUGH DISCIPLINE
Programs keep problem students learning
Greater Cincinnati school districts are trying a variety of approaches to helping children learn to deal with conflict and succeed in life. Here are some of them. |
THE RACIAL DIVIDE
Black students disciplined more
Black students are still more likely than
white students to be disciplined at school - three decades after
American education documented the disparity. Three-fourths
of 40 Southwest Ohio school districts disciplined African-Americans
at higher rates than whites
last year, an Enquirer analysis of school discipline data
shows. In more than half of schools, blacks were twice as likely
to be suspended and sent home for at least one day.
• Photo
gallery: Racism roundtable |
M O R E .
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• Another
chance engenders success at Winton Woods
• The students speak: Their view on suspensions
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See discipline rates for your
school or school district and how those compare to others in your state. Find
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• Christopher's
story - One kindergartner's story
• Racism
roundtable - Students speak out
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| V I D E O |
This project was a collaboration between The Enquirer and WCPO. These segments aired on 9News broadcasts:
• The future cost
• Christopher Rogers
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• Two parents on pros & cons
• Alton L. Frailey, superintendent
• Audrey J. Gover, teacher
• Sue Taylor, Cincinnati Federation of Teachers
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| A B O U T T H E S E R I E S |
"The Discipline Dilemma" is based on computer analysis of student discipline records obtained through open records requests from the Ohio and Kentucky education departments. Ohio data was from 2000-01, 2001-02 and 2002-03. Kentucky data was from 1999-2000, 2000-01 and 2001-02. State data was matched with school enrollment numbers to determine discipline rates. The data contained no student names.
Stories were researched and written by education reporter Jennifer Mrozowski and business reporter John Byczkowski. Photographs are by Gary Landers.
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